Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
-Ayn Rand
Quotations
Life
Life is a festival only to the wise.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
-Paulo Coelho
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
-Ernest Hemingway
A sacrifice is a gift of the essence or the product of our lives. It may be a gift of our time, a gift of our talent, or a gift of our treasure.
-John Garmo "John Garmo"
You ask: What is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: Do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
-Freeman Dyson
"The Meaning of Life"
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
-Paulo Coelho
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-Carl Gustav Jung
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
