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
I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.
-Louis Sachar
"Holes"
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
-Ernest Hemingway
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is given to us; we earn it by giving it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
-Muriel Spark "Muriel Spark"
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
Either you lead a life which is luxurious on the material level or you lead a luxurious life of God’s blessings - one of the two you have to choose, the time has come…The enjoyment of life is only possible if the world could get connected to the spirit.
-A Spiritual Leader "Mata Nirmala Devi"
What difference does it make, whether you live in a big city or in a community of homes? The real life is within.
-Khalil Gibran
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
-Nelson Mandela
