We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most…

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Life cannot wait until the sciences may have explained the universe scientifically. We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient…

— Jose Ortegay Y. Gasset

“It is never too late to ask yourself, ‘Am I ready to change the life I am living? Am I ready to change within?’…

— Elif Shafak

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

— William Faulkner

“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long…

— William Faulkner

“[I]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenever a man in any way…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Looking back over nearly a quarter of a century, she saw that that had been the characteristic of her life -passivity, adaptability to others.”

— Doris Lessing

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

— Jennifer Jones

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

— Stephen R. Donaldson

Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the sense of…

— Allan Bloom

Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED

— William Rathbone Greg

Everything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures

— Fulton J. Sheen

Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.

— Sinclair B. Ferguson