How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Life
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
-Hal Borland "Hal Borland"
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
-Ayn Rand
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
-Nelson Mandela
It is not that you read a book, pass an examination and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
Death is extraordinarily like life when we know how to live.
-J. Krishnamurti
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-Voltaire
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
-Plato
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
-Gustave Flaubert
