Quotations
Life
You ask: What is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: Do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
- Freeman Dyson
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
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
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction is to live twice.
- Khalil Gibran
When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard”, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what?
- Sydney J. Harris
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
- William Shakespeare
If you can always smile at life, life will always smile at you.
- Mirra Alfassa
I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.
- Charles M. Schulz
It is a reality of life that affection is not always reciprocated.
- Alison Gardner
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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