We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-E. M. Forster
Quotations
Life
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
-Muriel Spark "Muriel Spark"
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
-Proverbs "Sanskrit Proverb"
What difference does it make, whether you live in a big city or in a community of homes? The real life is within.
-Khalil Gibran
Life is our teacher. Life communicates with us all the time and it is a lesson to see how life continuously has led me to the people I need to meet, to the situations I need to experience, and to the places I need to be.
-Swami Dhyan Giten "Swami Dhyan Giten"
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-Oscar Wilde
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
-Henry Miller
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
