We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-E. M. Forster
Quotations
Life
If you closely observe life, you will find, here with every pleasure there is pain...
and with every pain, pleasure. Hence, among all that is happening, if you keep
your eyes fixed only at the brighter side of it, you can always be happy.
-Deep Trivedi
You can get all A's and still flunk life.
-Walker Percy
"The Second Coming"
He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.
-Garth Stein
"The Art of Racing in the Rain"
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
-Hal Borland "Hal Borland"
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-Anaïs Nin
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat and man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
That best portion of a man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
-William Wordsworth
Life becomes a festival when gaiety and culture blend.
-Anonymous "Anonymous"
It is a reality of life that affection is not always reciprocated.
-Alison Gardner
