Death is extraordinarily like life when we know how to live.
-J. Krishnamurti
Quotations
Life
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
If you can always smile at life, life will always smile at you.
-Mirra Alfassa "Mirra Alfassa"
Die while you’re alive and be absolutely dead. Then do whatever you want: it’s all good.
-Anonymous
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
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Alchemist"
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
-Margaret Mitchell
One’s entire life is a continuous process of learning. Any process of inquiry is related to learning. But basically our inquiry should be concerned with finding out what is transient and what is permanent. This is true knowledge.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sri Sathya Sai Baba"
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"White Nights"
Where there is love there is life.
-Mahatma Gandhi
