In the silence of loveyou will find the spark of life
— The Love Poems of Rumi
Quotes About Life
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
— Faust: First Part
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
— Meditations
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
— The Open Door
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
— Gabriel García Márquez: a Life
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
— Flight to Arras
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
— A Case of Identity
Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
— Tao Te Ching
— The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.
— Madame Bovary
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
— The Premature Burial
It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not where you've been. You're still an innocent. It's okay life is a tough crowd, 32 is still growing up now.
— Taylor Swift: Speak Now
You are -- your life, and nothing else.
— No Exit
— The Advancement Of Learning
Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
— The Count of Monte Cristo
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
— Sexuality and the Psychology of Love
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
— La Vieillesse
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
— The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology of Writings By and About the Dalai Lama
And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.
— The Cherry Orchard
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
— Oedipus Rex
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
— The Art of War
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
— An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
— Ficciones
To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man