Home / Topics / Life Quotes

Life Quotes

Browse 53183 quotes about Life.

Life Quotes

“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”

World Life Universe Imagination Rooms Missing My Imagination Missing Out

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“If you hold on to the negative, there is no room for the positive to come into your life.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Motivational Success Rooms Positive Negative Marketing

Book:Why You're Dumb, Sick and Broke...And How to Get Smart, Healthy and Rich!

Source: Why You're Dumb, Sick and Broke...And How to Get Smart, Healthy and Rich!

“Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!”

“I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.”

Life Play Night Games Waiting Rooms

Book:The collected plays

Source: The collected plays

“The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.”

Life Rooms Computer Ordinary Dust Shock Ordinary Life

Book:Underworld: Picador Classic

Source: Underworld: Picador Classic

“In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you cook, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you clean the floor, there is a chance to attain enlightenment.”

Ifs Life Opportunity Chance Rooms Enlightenment Clean Everyday Cooks Everyday Life

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“Children of yesterday, / Heirs of to-morrow, / What are you weaving? / Labor and sorrow? / Look to your looms again. / Faster and faster / Fly the great shuttles / Prepared by the Master, / Life's in the loom, / Room for it - / Room!”

Life Looks Children Hope Rooms Masters Sorrow Labor Prepared Yesterday Faster Heirs Morrow Weaving

Author:Mary Lasswell

“Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we turn about The bare chimney is gone black out Because the work had finished in that flare.”

Ifs World Life May Turns Black Rooms Gone Finished Straws Damp Chimneys Flare Small Rooms

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.”

Life Stills Play Seems Faces Night Rooms Shadow Garden Tricks Gravel New Faces

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.”

Source: Time Wars: The Primary Conflict in Human History