Quotes about Life
It's the whole thing,' he asserted. 'It's the one dividing line between good and evil. I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...
— F Scott Fitzgerald
One thing's sure and nothings' surer the rich get richer and the poor get -children In the meantime In between time.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The disappointment, brokenness, suffering, and pain that characterize life in this present world is held in dynamic tension with the promise of future glory that is yet to come. In that Advent tension, the church lives its life.
— Fleming Rutledge
It becomes clear that whereas life in Christ results in obedience, this "obedience of faith" (Rom. 1:5; 16:26) is not accomplished by a human choice of one of two ways. There is a decisive difference between a call to obey and a transfer to a new world.
— Fleming Rutledge
The most cherished and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center ceases to hold. What keeps them at such times from disintegration is not legions but language.
— Joseph Brodsky
I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.
— Ann Voskamp
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
— Steve Jobs
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
— Anne Lamott
Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house.
— John Updike