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There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?
Sep 10, 2025
And what is life? God manifested in the material plane. For it is in Him that we live and move and have our being.
What is life, but one long risk?
What is life but playing with time?
Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death?
What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
What is life but a Spectrum and what is music but life itself.
What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.
People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading [poems], I think, you find a certain beauty in the questioning, and that is then poetry.
What is life? A continuous praise and blame.
I dreamed of myself in a dream, and told the dream, which was mine, as if it were another person's of whom I dreamed. Indeed what is life when thinking of the past, but dreaming of a dream dreamt by another who seems to be oneself?
The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
What is life without the radiance of love?
Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
If you don't put the spiritual and religious dimension into our political conversation, you won't be asking the really big and important question. If you don't bring in values and religion, you'll be asking superficial questions. What is life all about? What is our relationship to God? These are the important questions. What is our obligation to one another and community? If we don't ask those questions, the residual questions that we're asking aren't as interesting.
And what is Life? - An hour-glass on the run
What is life for? Life is for you.
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it
What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?
What is life but a series of inspired follies.
What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.
What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?
Suicide is an escape from life. What is life? An escape from death. This means that each of us must die twice. There is the death waiting for us ahead, and the death that comes pursuing from behind.... Once you are free at least from the death that comes pursuing you, you can relax and enjoy life as you go along.
May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?
What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?
What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.
But what is life to a lichen ? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on.
What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into old mangy blind dogs, and proud war horses into skinny nags, and succulent young boys, to whom the world holds great delights and terrors, into old weak men, with running eyes, who drink ground rhino-horn?
Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?
In the colored reflection we have Life.
If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?
I asked Chief Justice John Roberts about this definition of life - you know, what is life? The Supreme Court can't figure it out or doesn't want us to figure it out; the fact that we know that there is no life if there's no heartbeat and brainwaves.
The reason why life is a sleep & dream for most people is because their awareness is caught up with past or future & not with what is.
I doubt she likes the idea of seeing him put back in a cage.” “Maybe not,” he said. “But she knows that the Authority are the only people who might be able to help him.” “Or kill him,” I said. “That too. What is life without risk?” “Long?” Terric laughed, a sort of high whooping that made me—and Zayvion, much to my surprise—smile. Contagious. For all he had a serious exterior, Terric was the guy you’d want to sit next to at a funny movie, just to hear him laugh.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much.
People are searching for reasons for believing, searching for answers to the big existential questions of "Why am I here?" and "What is life all about?" I find that people are able to accept the teaching of the Gospel when it's presented to them in both a rational and positive way.
What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?
What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.
[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.