Life Quotes

If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.

I’m single, I’m enjoying life. Being a boss. Like all true bosses, one day you gotta give it up.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

Like all of life’s important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.