Quotations
Life
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
- Ernest Hemingway
Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.
- Sri Chaitanya
The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
- Tom Bodett
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by.
- Nicholas Sparks
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
It is forbidden to live in a town that does not have a green garden.
- The Talmud
When we see everything in life as a game, we will be equally joyous when falling as we are when rising. If we can fully understand this – if we can see life as swinging on a swing – we will never fall apart when failure comes our way.
- A Spiritual Leader
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
- Leo Tolstoy
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil.
- Albert Schweitzer
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