I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Everything is Illuminated"
Quotations
Life
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
-Mark Twain
Why don't you simply understand that events are happening outside and your life
is within you. Then whatever happens outside, why should your life be affected
by it ? It does, because you forcibly perceive yourself being attached to it.
-Deep Trivedi
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
-Emily Dickinson
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed : By doing nothing.
-Ian McEwan
"On Chesil Beach"
We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
-Paulo Coelho
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-Voltaire
You have crossed the great ocean; why do you halt so near the shore? Make haste to get on the other side, Gautama; be careful all the while!
-Scriptures "Uttaradhyayana Sutra 10.34"
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
-Marcus Aurelius
Life is life – Whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
-Sri Aurobindo
