Quotes about Life
May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.
— John Henry Jowett
You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
— Khalil Gibran
And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
— Virginia Woolf
But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.
— DH Lawrence
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
— Teresa of Avila
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
— Virginia Woolf
It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.
— George Eliot
And on the tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, sat like a cormorant.
— John Milton
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
— Mark Twain
A tree depicts divinest plan But God himself lives in a man.
— Anonymous