You can get all A's and still flunk life.
-Walker Percy
"The Second Coming"
Quotations
Life
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
-Agatha Christie
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.
-Earl Nightingale "Earl Nightingale"
He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.
-Garth Stein
"The Art of Racing in the Rain"
A successful life is the one which has no desires left in the mind at the time of
death.
-Deep Trivedi
One’s entire life is a continuous process of learning. Any process of inquiry is related to learning. But basically our inquiry should be concerned with finding out what is transient and what is permanent. This is true knowledge.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sri Sathya Sai Baba"
If you can always smile at life, life will always smile at you.
-Mirra Alfassa "Mirra Alfassa"
Nature's creation is such that whatever is worth attaining or beneficial for us, we
can get it automatically. But in the race to grab the things which are futile and
painful, we miss attaining them only.
-Deep Trivedi
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"White Nights"
