The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
-Tom Bodett
Quotations
Life
Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "The XIV Dalai Lama"
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
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed : By doing nothing.
-Ian McEwan
"On Chesil Beach"
Goodness and holistic way of living go together.
-J. Krishnamurti
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"
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
-Ayn Rand
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
-Irving Berlin
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
-Paulo Coelho
