The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people will spend it for you.
-Peter Shaffer
"Five Finger Exercise: A Play"
Quotations
Life
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
-Martha Graham
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches and thoughts. And the consequences, whether good or bad of even the least of them, are far-reaching.
-Swami Sivananda "Swami Sivananda"
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-Anaïs Nin
The horse who wins the race, but does not know the difference between dry and
green grass, for how long can he sustain himself in the race? Same is the case
with people who attain higher degrees or are scholars, but still do not understand
the realities of life.
-Deep Trivedi
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
-Proverbs "Sanskrit Proverb"
That best portion of a man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
-William Wordsworth
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
-Ayn Rand
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
-Tennessee Williams
