We are always getting ready to live but never living.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Life
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 is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"
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
Travel light on your journey in life. Your desires and expectations are heavy baggage which slow you down and thwart your progress. Let them go.
-A Spiritual Leader "Swami Chidanand Saraswati"
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
-Søren Kierkegaard
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
-Martha Graham
