Quotes about Life
Time is so full for people who are dying in a conscious way, full in the way that life is for children. They spend big round hours.
— Anne Lamott
As is' is the portal to creation, to new life.
— Anne Lamott
Periods in the wilderness or desert were not lost time. You might find life, wildflowers, fossils, sources of water.
— Anne Lamott
Life is not a submarine. There are no plans.
— Anne Lamott
There is the absolute hopelessness we face that everyone we love will die, even our newborn granddaughter, even as we trust and know that love will give rise to growth, miracles, and resurrection.
— Anne Lamott
The Cul-de-Sac and the Cliff Are the Curves That Lead to Failure If you find yourself facing either of these two curves, you need to quit. Not soon, but right now. The biggest obstacle to success in life, as far as I can tell, is our inability to quit these curves soon enough.
— Seth Godin
It is much more difficult to deal with the truth about your life when you have no idea that you have feet of clay and it suddenly begins to rain.
— Sheila Walsh
The greatest defense against the storm of lies that the enemy would use to drain every moment of joy from your life is to surround yourself with the truth of God's Word.
— Sheila Walsh
He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.
— Cormac McCarthy
What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
— DH Lawrence
Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible.
— Dallas Willard
You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else. Whether directly or indirectly, behave decently to other people.
— Danny Boyle