Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may… meet with great misfortunes.
-Aristotle
Quotations
Life
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
-William Goldman
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv
It is forbidden to live in a town that does not have a green garden.
-The Talmud "Talmud"
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
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
-Edgar Allan Poe
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
-Virginia Woolf
