I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Everything is Illuminated"
Quotations
Life
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
-Robert Brault
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
-Elizabeth Gilbert
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
-Bob Moawad
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
-Irving Berlin
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-Voltaire
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
-Bodhidharma "Bodhidharma"
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
-George Washington Carver
If there is any planning worth undertaking in human life it is, when one breathes
his last neither should he have any guilt nor dissatisfaction... Despite doing
everything desired, still if he has any kind of remorse or discontent while bidding
goodbye to this world...then what did he do all his life?
-Deep Trivedi
