The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
-Henry David Thoreau
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
-Henry David Thoreau
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life. It's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!
-Robert T. Kiyosaki
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
-Hans Christian Anderson
This new life is endless, and even after my physical death it will be kept alive by those who live the life of complete renunciation of falsehood, lies, hatred, anger, greed and lust and who, to accomplish all this, do no lustful actions, do no harm to anyone.
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
-Martha Graham
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed : By doing nothing.
-Ian McEwan
"On Chesil Beach"
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-Voltaire