Quotations
Life
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
- Nelson Mandela
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.
- Sylvia Plath
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people will spend it for you.
- Peter Shaffer
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
That best portion of a man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
- William Wordsworth
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
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
Life without freedom is like a body without a soul, and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit…
- Khalil Gibran
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
- Edgar Allan Poe
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
- Mark Twain
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