Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
-Henry David Thoreau "Henry David Thoreau"
Quotations
Life
-Henry David Thoreau "Henry David Thoreau"
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
-Bertrand Russell
The combat of life is greater than every other earthly combat.
-Plato
If you can always smile at life, life will always smile at you.
-Mirra Alfassa "Mirra Alfassa"
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
-Søren Kierkegaard
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"White Nights"
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
-Maya Angelou
When we see everything in life as a game, we will be equally joyous when falling as we are when rising. If we can fully understand this – if we can see life as swinging on a swing – we will never fall apart when failure comes our way.
-A Spiritual Leader "Mata Amritanandamayi"
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
-Irving Berlin
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Alchemist"
