Quotations
Life
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
- Charlie Chaplin
If there's a thing I've learned in my life, it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for, don't.
- Cassandra Clare
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
- Anne Lamott
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
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
- William Goldman
It is a good practice to set apart at least one day in a year for the remembrance of one’s near and dear relatives, friends and learned people that are no more in keeping with our traditions; giving a new orientation to and infusing new life into practices that have become lifeless and meaningless to many.
- Scriptures
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
- Gustave Flaubert
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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
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