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
Quotations
Life
Life is given to us; we earn it by giving it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The evil ruler spoils the word, the plan of life, by his teachings. He, indeed, deprives me of the exalted goal of good thought. With the word of my spirit, I pray to You, O Wise One, and to truth!
-Scriptures "Avesta, Yasna 32.9"
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
Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.
-Sri Chaitanya "Sri Chaitanya"
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
-Paulo Coelho
There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...
-Mitch Albom
"The Five People You Meet in Heaven"
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
-Ernest Hemingway
