Reverence For Life Quotes

“Through life, I want to walk gently. I want to treat all of life – the earth and its people – with reverence. I want to remove my shoes in the presence of holy ground. As much as possible, I want to walk in peace.

I want to walk lightly, even joyfully, through whatever days I am given. I want to laugh easily. I want to step carefully in and out of people's lives and relationships. I don't want to tread any heavier than necessary.

And throughout life, I think I would like to walk with more humility and less anger, more love and less fear. I want to walk confidently, but without arrogance. I want to walk in deep appreciation. I want to be genuinely thankful for life's extravagant, yet simple, gifts – a star-splattered night sky or a hot drink on an ice-cold day.

If life is a journey, then how I make that journey is important. How I walk through life.”
― Steve Goodier

“Every day is an opportunity to stand in awe when witnessing the overpowering presence of nature, an apt time to pay reverence for the inestimable beauty of life. I must remain mindful to live in an ethical manner by paying attention to the threat of injustice towards other people and resist capitulating to the absurdity of being a finite body born into infinite space and time. I am part of the world, a spar in a sacred composition, a body of energy suspended in the cosmos. I seek to create a poetic personal testament to life. When I pivot and turn away from fixating upon the cruel artifices of my encysted orbit to face and outwardly embrace the cleansing swirl of heaven’s windmill, I feel gusting in the shank of my marrow the thump of onrushing primordial truths, the electric flush of those ineffable couplets of life that one may not utter.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Each of us experiences the perpetual revival of the self. We constantly recast our connate emotional index by perceiving each encounter in life as a marvel, impedance, problem, disaster, or nothing at all. Living in the moment allows us to escape the lonely landscape of self-interest and be part of a larger world filled with beauty, reverence, and adoration.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“An enlightened person strives to live a meaningful life, defined by their personal humility joy, passion, and profound reverence for life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We renew our hearts and minds by exhibiting veneration for all living creatures and by unveiling a spirit of reverence and awe. Witnessing the magnificence of nature and displaying empathy for humankind is what inspires all artists.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Love, reverence, and adoration, are multifaceted emotions. Similar to a painting by an artist, how we respond to a beautiful woman, nature, and the world that we encounter reveals the spectator and not life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We foster personal meaning out of life by exulting in all of nature, exhibiting a reverence for people, animals, plants, and by expressing compassion and sympathy for the entire community of life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Though we live in a world filled with strife, a person can resolve to live in a manner that promotes a tranquil mind while exhibiting charity for other people and reverence for nature.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The greatest gift that one generation bestows on its successors is striving valiantly to make every day of a person’s life count by working to enhance human knowledge and teaching what we learn to willing learners. Every generation of human beings owes a debt of immense gratitude to the forerunning generations who worked to solve problems that bedevil humanity and for exhibiting a profound reverence for all forms of life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Gummi Duty! Oh no!”
― Kye Alfred Hillig

“Faith in God, reverence of a Creator!”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Red Bird in Snow

You can choose
to stop short -
or have it
not matter
not weigh
the brightness,
not hold
very still
and be
known
to yourself
again.
A thing
fills
with exactly
the radiance
you accord it.”
― Lia Purpura, It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful

“The steadfast practice of being with what is real is one of the truest ways I have come to understand the nature of reverence.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“Silence had hovered over my head; beauty multiplying in the air, the trees so transparent I felt I could see through to something pure inside them. My chest ached then, too, this very same way”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Reverence begins here, in humility. It begins when we remember that even our breath is borrowed, that each dawn is gifted, that our entire being is held in divine mercy. To live with reverence is to see traces of the Creator in everything.”
― Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World"