We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-Winston S. Churchill
Quotations
Life
Life only begins to be an adventure when we cease living it for ourselves.
-Joel S. Goldsmith
There are two ways of passing from this world – one in light, and one in darkness. When one passes in light he does not come back but when one passes in darkness he returns.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 8.26"
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Everything is Illuminated"
Those who see all creatures within themselves, and themselves in all creatures know no fear. Those who see all creatures in themselves, and themselves in all creatures know no grief. How can the multiplicity of life, delude the one who sees its unity?
-Isha Upanishad "Isha Upanishad 6-7"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
-Jean Cocteau
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
-Charlie Chaplin
Do not race after riches, do not risk your life for success, or you will let slip the heaven within you.
-Scriptures "Chuang Tzu 29"
There are those who spend their lives arguing which is better, the crescent moon or the full. Then there are a few who revel in both for they know The Moon is One.
-Quran "Qamar, “ The Moon” "
