Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
-Ayn Rand
Quotations
Life
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
-Coco Chanel
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
-Hilary Cooper
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat and man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
-Nelson Mandela
Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.
-Sri Chaitanya "Sri Chaitanya"
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-E. M. Forster
Life has become immeasurably better since I have stopped taking it seriously.
-Hunter S. Thompson
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
