It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
-Epicurus
Quotations
Life
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
-Jim Rohn
That best portion of a man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
-William Wordsworth
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
-Gustave Flaubert
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"White Nights"
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
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
-Maya Angelou
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
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
-Charles Buxton
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
-Mark Twain
