Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Quotations
Life
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
-Proverbs "Sanskrit Proverb"
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"
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-Oscar Wilde
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Alchemist"
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
-Dalai Lama
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
