We are always getting ready to live but never living.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Life
He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.
-Garth Stein
"The Art of Racing in the Rain"
Life is but a dream for the dead.
-Gerard Way
Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it.
-Steve Maraboli
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
-Eric Idle
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
-Arthur Rubinstein
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
-Martha Graham
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people will spend it for you.
-Peter Shaffer
"Five Finger Exercise: A Play"
However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
-Henry David Thoreau
