Life can be full of dark times, and things that knock us off our feet, but there are good times, too, and gifts along the way. It would be wrong to turn our backs on a gift just because we've been knocked down once or twice, or because some of the people we love aren't here anymore.
—Jessie Evans in Melt with You
I never stopped loving you. Even when I was in love with someone else.
—Jessie Evans in Melt with You
There were so many people in the world who wasted their aliveness, who hung back when they should reach out, who sat out when they should join in, who hung on when they should let go.
—Jessie Evans in Betting on You
More quotations tagged with “life”
Buddhism is not a refuge from life. It is life stripped bare and known most intimately. Zen doesn't make you a "better person." It helps you become fully human. My mentor was no model for how to behave perfectly but for how to experience completely. He never told me how to live my life. He just helped me become alive.
—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk
The first years of man must make provision for the last.
—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.
—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Is there life before death?
—Graffito
When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.
—Sue Monk Kidd in The Secret Life of Bees
History
21 Aug 2015
Added