There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Life
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-Abraham Lincoln
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
-Maya Angelou
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"
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
-Elbert Hubbard
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
-Eric Idle
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-E. M. Forster
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
-Bertrand Russell
Do not race after riches, do not risk your life for success, or you will let slip the heaven within you.
-Scriptures "Chuang Tzu 29"
