You ask: What is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: Do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
-Freeman Dyson
"The Meaning of Life"
Quotations
Life
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
-Robert Louis Stevenson "R. L. Stevenson"
To be absolutely independent in each and every field of life, is your first and
foremost duty. If you are burdensome to anyone, for anything...then your life is
a complete waste.
-Deep Trivedi
Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone’s life.
-Leo Babauta
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed : By doing nothing.
-Ian McEwan
"On Chesil Beach"
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
-William Goldman
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
We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
-Paulo Coelho
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
-Nelson Mandela "Nelson Mandela"
