Define Life Quotes

As it turns out, that persistence is a requirement. Thus, he would tell me, you need the dark to show the light, so you shouldn't curse darkness. You needed death to define life. ~ Terry Goodkind

Obligatory is a bitch that's what is going to define life. ~ Deyth Banger

I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified. ~ Craig Venter

What I was concerned with was life: what are the major features that are common to all living organisms that subtly define life. So I looked at the whole problem as a chemist, as a biochemist, and as a molecular biologist. ~ Christian De Duve

All life has in it the dimension of the Unknown; it is a thing forever unfolding. It seems important to consider the possibility that science may have defined life too small. If we define life too small, we will define ourselves too small as well. ~ Rachel Naomi Remen

Decision and choices define life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The way you SEE your life SHAPES your life.
How you define life determines your destiny. Your perspective will influence how you invest your time, spend your money, use your talents, and value your relationships. ~ Rick Warren

We live by what we get; we define life by what we give. ~ Debasish Mridha

I'd rather be the creep in the night and the fire that burns your eyes than the way you use and define life. ~ Dominic Riccitello

The heart is not only the location of the 4th chakra, located at the centre of your chakra system, but also the centre of your conscious universe and is able to create and define life in its true essence. ~ Steven Redhead

One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

Interesting that the book used the word define.
That's just what I've been thinking about.
This business of defining who you are
and what you are
and where you are headed-
it's all harder than I thought it would be.
I thought that this stuff
just ...
happened,
I thought that life
just happened,
and I guess I thought
I'd drift right along,
like a leaf on a river,
flowing with the current
to wherever the river wanted to go. ~ Kelly Bingham

Life is suffering" is misleading for at least two reasons. First, the Buddha used an ancient Indian language similar to Sanskrit called Pali, and the word he used in Pali for the first noble truth, dukkha, is difficult to translate. Dukkha is too multifaceted and nuanced a term to be captured in the one-word translation "suffering." And second, the fact of dukkha in our lives doesn't mean that life is only dukkha. ~ Toni Bernhard

Failures make you humble, they make you realize that you are not the center of the world, proving that we are all alike, and they also shower you with wisdom. That's why I have always been a great fan of failures as they offer you more than success can. ~ Neeraj Agnihotri

Investigation was like a series of job interviews. Getting the door slammed in your face at every attempt wasn't the exciting life of the detective portrayed on film or television. ~ Kenneth Eade

You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow, that's too bad,' and then most people tend to go about their day. But when someone tells you that it's your father or it's your family, that doesn't tend to go away. ~ Jake Owen

1.If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion, life itself will be the religion. ~ Osho

Elizabeth laughed. No way. You'll have to talk to Dad about this yourself, but I'll tell you this, honey, it's dangerous to quit something because you think you're not good enough. That can be an ugly pattern that repeats itself throughout your life. Believe me, I know. ~ Kristin Hannah

Losing your job gives you time ~ Sunday Adelaja

So naturally, I caught myself making up personalities for him - you know, the way you do with pets and cute boys and famous people. What's that called? Anthropomorphism. You do it so that you feel like you can relate personally to whatever it is – your dog, or God or whatever. You do that so you can care about things, and so that life at least appears to make sense. And maybe you do it so you can feel like something cares about you.
The dangerous thing about doing that, Paul told me one time, is what you end up caring about isn't necessarily what's really there – just what you've decided is there.
Which may be very far from the truth. So you could very easily end up depending on a lie. Or a dream. ~ Kristen D. Randle

Don't lose your joy for life.
When you grow old you may still exist,
but you will have ceased to live. ~ Diann Shaddox

We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

You reap what you sow,so try to make everybody you meet feel better, life can be hard and you dont know what people are going through, a few kind words can make a difference to someones life ~ Jacqueline Parker

We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough ~ Karen White

The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life. ~ Isobelle Carmody

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye. ~ Chelsea Clinton

Dreams are the poetry of life to be written with love and actions. ~ Debasish Mridha

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found. ~ Pema Chodron

I am a computer professional. Like many people, life has taught me the terrible impact that people who are out-of-control have on others – especially vulnerable children. ~ Travis Morgan

You're a beautiful boy, Clay, but that's about it. ~ Bret Easton Ellis

The ceremonies that persist - birthdays, weddings, funerals - focus only on ourselves, marking rites of personal transition. […]
We know how to carry out this rite for each other and we do it well. But imagine standing by the river, flooded with those same feelings as the Salmon march into the auditorium of their estuary. Rise in their honor, thank them for all the ways they have enriched our lives, sing to honor their hard work and accomplishments against all odds, tell them they are our hope for the future, encourage them to go off into the world to grow, and pray that they will come home. Then the feasting begins. Can we extend our bonds of celebration and support from our own species to the others who need us?
Many indigenous traditions still recognize the place of ceremony and often focus their celebrations on other species and events in the cycle of the seasons. In a colonist society the ceremonies that endure are not about land; they're about family and culture, values that are transportable from the old country. Ceremonies for the land no doubt existed there, but it seems they did not survive emigration in any substantial way. I think there is wisdom in regenerating them here, as a means to form bonds with this land. ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

When I die cremate me so I can finally fit into something small. ~ Xondra Day

Life is too short because we die. ~ Christopher Locke

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything. ~ Hayley Mills

The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral. ~ Aristippus

The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot. ~ Bruce Chatwin

The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife. ~ Henry Glassford Bell

I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer. ~ Mikhail Lermontov

After the day's active life, we spend at least a few hours quietly to develop our aesthetic, theoretical, and spiritual understanding of the way of life. By either reading, writing, performing, or thinking and meditating, we should continuously refine our personality and deepen our understanding of art, literature, science, philosophy, religion, and various other arts. ~ Michio Kushi

Life has a balance and natural order. I'm not fighting the flow anymore. My career right now is very up. It's happening naturally and it's happening well. ~ Irene Cara

We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life ... We discovered the color of each other's eyes. ~ Jerry Spinelli

If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge. ~ Horace Mann

Along our journey we will be confronted with many situations, some will be filled with joy, and some will be filled with heartache. How we react to what we are faced will determine what kind of outcome the rest of our journey through life will be like. ~ Susan Samaroo

I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don't have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow. ~ Tom Araya

But the next generation, like this baby in the airport, will never know what life is like without a device. This raises a couple of questions: What does the future hold for this baby? And can she beat me at Candy Crush? ~ Lauren Graham

The first thing people hear or see on the internet is the first thing they believe. No matter what the truth is. ~ James Hauenstein

When life breaks you down, you have two choices. You can either leave the pieces on the floor... or you can rebuild yourself so that you're stronger than before. ~ Tess Alley