Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
-Katharine Hepburn
"Me: Stories of My Life"
Quotations
Life
What most counts is not to live, but to live right.
-Socrates
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
-Nelson Mandela "Nelson Mandela"
Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.
-Richelle Mead
"Last Sacrifice"
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
-Julian Barnes
"Flaubert's Parrot"
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"White Nights"
How soon you overcome each incident, good or bad happening with you reveals
how deeply you understand life?
-Deep Trivedi
You have crossed the great ocean; why do you halt so near the shore? Make haste to get on the other side, Gautama; be careful all the while!
-Scriptures "Uttaradhyayana Sutra 10.34"
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
-Bodhidharma "Bodhidharma"
Of winter’s lifeless world each tree now seems a perfect part; Yet each one holds summer’s secret deep down within its heart.
-Charles G. Stater "Charles. G. Stater"
