Measuring Life Quotes

How much dust can a body make? Little specks of death. Measuring life in millimeters. ~ Ryan Galloway

A human life was measured out in bouquets, was it not? New mothers received them. So did graduating seniors, young lovers, blushing brides, and the dead. A flower woman was time's avatar, colorizing the hours, perfuming fleeting instants. ~ James K. Morrow

They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang. ~ Marisha Pessl

When you are measuring life, you are not living it. ~ Mitch Albom

Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema ... The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself. ~ Lee Kuan Yew

The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression. ~ Henri Nouwen

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life. ~ Haruki Murakami

Everyone has things they are afraid of, real and imaginary. ~ Richard Bell

It'll all come right. Because, of course, I do believe...I believe - I believe in everything...sun, moon, stars, in seasons - trees, flowers - people, music, life...yes, in life. ~ Rosamond Lehmann

If a person is Silent it doesn't mean he doesn't have to say anything, but It means Life has taught Him some Lessons which has made Him Silent..! ~ Nutan Bajracharya

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing. ~ John Dewey

Love yourself to be the source of love. ~ Debasish Mridha

When you are healthy mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually - when you're doing well, you're likely to do good things in life. ~ Andrew Cherng

Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center. ~ Richie Norton

It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked. ~ Patrick Kavanagh

Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life. ~ O.J. Simpson

God of mighty powers.
God of great deeds. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't need millions of dollars. I need to know that what I'm doing with my life is expressing who I am, and maybe making people happy. This is all we get. ~ Felicia Day

Things change, so I have to change too. ~ Adam Scythe

Excuses and complaints are signs of a dreamless life ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The grace of Christ in the soul is developing traits of character that are the opposite of selfishness - traits that will refine, ennoble, and enrich the life. ~ Ellen G. White

Bright clasp of her whole hand around my finger My daughter as we walk together now. All my life I'll feel a ring invisibly Circle this bone with shining When she is grown. ~ Stephen Spender

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. ~ Andre Agassi

So I feared not just the violence of this world but the rules designed to protect you from it, the rules that would have you contort your body to address the block, and contort again to be taken seriously by colleagues, and contort again so as not to give the police a reason. All my life I'd heard people tell their black boys and black girls to "be twice as good," which is to say "accept half as much." These words would be spoken with a veneer of religious nobility, as though they evidenced some unspoken quality, some undetected courage, when in fact all they evidenced was the gun to our head and the hand in our pocket. This is how we lose our softness. This is how they steal our right to smile. ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Enza studied the photograph of her parents on their wedding day as if it were a map. In a sense it was, as they were creating a destination, a life together. ~ Adriana Trigiani

Forgive those whose actions are the outcome of their personality, and forget those whose personalities are the outcome of their actions. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp! ~ Patrick Rothfuss

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego. ~ Terence McKenna

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you. ~ Peg Bracken

If you didn't fall down, you would never have learned how to pick yourself up. ~ Laurie Nadel

It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed ~ Idries Shah

Life is too short to waste on something your heart is no longer in. ~ Marie Force

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon. ~ C. G. Jung

I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life - how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people. ~ Claire Denis

Some of most valuable gifts come wrapped in the ugliest paper. ~ Navonne Johns

You both think I know not what,' said I. 'Have the goodness to make me as little the subject of your mutual talk and thoughts as possible. I have my own sort of life apart from yours. ~ Charlotte Bronte

When you're in morgue you're seeing life that no longer exists. It gives you an appreciation when you look someone in the eye, you shake their hand, and you hug your friends, your girlfriend, your family. It just gives you an appreciation for the life that surrounds you. At the same time you understand how fragile it is. That you don't need to be an idiot or get so angry at times. ~ Milo Ventimiglia

Everybody wants a change and change happens in the life of everybody each day, but not all changes are preferable ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I thought to never have a family, to never have a woman I could love, physically, but when I met ye, I realized love was not merely a physical act. It was about being willing to lay down yer life for another. ~ Ashley York