Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Quotations
Life
Life itself is simple...it's just not easy.
-Steve Maraboli
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
-Bodhidharma "Bodhidharma"
The refined form of "human" body, mind, culture and consciousness that we
witness today is the result of countless unsuccessful efforts spanning over millions
of years. We cannot afford to waste such a precious life only on education,
marriage, children, chasing wealth and pangs of old age.
-Deep Trivedi
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
-Helen Keller
One’s entire life is a continuous process of learning. Any process of inquiry is related to learning. But basically our inquiry should be concerned with finding out what is transient and what is permanent. This is true knowledge.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sri Sathya Sai Baba"
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
-Paulo Coelho
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
-Coco Chanel
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
-Gustave Flaubert
