Life's Nature Quotes

So I came to the realization: Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life.

Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is.

Life doesn't come in plot points or setups and payoffs. Life washes over you and passes.

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.

...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.

You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.

Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it.

There is no normality in life.

Our hearts are being stretched to span the violence and the suffering in our lives and world, and at the same time we are also witness to so much magnificence and brilliance. We are a species that has produced nuclear weapons, and also one that has developed profound insight into the nature of life itself.

There is nothing for granted in life. That's how it is.

Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

LIFE IS A DIVINE GIFT. The divine is not something outside of us; it is right in our very center; it is our freedom. In our training, we learn the real nature of life and death. When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for peace.

This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.

As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.

We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.

The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.