In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-Abraham Lincoln
Quotations
Life
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil.
-Albert Schweitzer "Albert Schweitzer"
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
-Epicurus
Die while you’re alive and be absolutely dead. Then do whatever you want: it’s all good.
-Anonymous
Human life is full off the play of samskaras, tendencies developed by repeated actions.
-Vinoba Bhave "Vinoba Bhave"
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.
-Sylvia Plath
Life's as kind as you let it be.
-Charles Bukowski
"Hot Water Music"
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
-Cormac McCarthy
"The Road"
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"
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people will spend it for you.
-Peter Shaffer
"Five Finger Exercise: A Play"
