It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
-Epicurus
Quotations
Life
People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Witch Of Portobello"
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.
-Earl Nightingale "Earl Nightingale"
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"
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-Abraham Lincoln
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
-Cormac McCarthy
"The Road"
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
-Virginia Woolf
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
-Woody Allen
What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.
-Robert Brault
