Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
-Elbert Hubbard
Quotations
Life
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
-Socrates
Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don’t hold on to the ball.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
-Jimi Hendrix
When we see everything in life as a game, we will be equally joyous when falling as we are when rising. If we can fully understand this – if we can see life as swinging on a swing – we will never fall apart when failure comes our way.
-A Spiritual Leader "Mata Amritanandamayi"
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"White Nights"
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware. Joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
-Henry Miller
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
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"
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
-Emily Dickinson
