When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
-George Washington Carver
Quotations
Life
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don’t hold on to the ball.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
-Julian Barnes
"Flaubert's Parrot"
When the sustenance of our life is so dependent on the thousands of inventions
of the scientists and the peace, bliss and happiness is bestowed by the great
artists, then how can we revere them any less than Krishna, Buddha or Christ?
-Deep Trivedi
The combat of life is greater than every other earthly combat.
-Plato
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
This isn't life in the fast lane. It's life in the oncoming traffic.
-Terry Pratchett
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
