Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
-Irving Berlin
Quotations
Life
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Learning is retained through putting into practice; family prestige is maintained through good behavior; a respectable person is recognised by his excellent qualities; and anger is seen in the eyes.
-Chanakya "Chanakya"
It is not that you read a book, pass an examination and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware. Joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
-Henry Miller
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
-Ambrose Bierce
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
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
-Charlie Chaplin
