When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
Quotations
Life
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein
When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard”, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what?
-Sydney J. Harris
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
-Søren Kierkegaard
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
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
-Jean Cocteau
Death is extraordinarily like life when we know how to live.
-J. Krishnamurti
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
-Marcus Aurelius
We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
-Lauryn Hill
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-Abraham Lincoln
