Jane Hirshfield Quotes

The soul was never put in the body to stand still.

Life is the train and not the station.

I move ahead, I live.

Never try to leap from a standstill.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

I never just do nothing. A weekend off? Let's go somewhere. Let's fly somewhere.

Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.

Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.

Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.

Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.

The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love.

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

You can actively flee, then, and you can actively stay put.

Only those who keep walking get sweet returns... look at the sun's perseverance- dynamic & always on the move, never dormant... hence keep moving.

Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room