My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
-Coco Chanel
Quotations
Life
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
-Elizabeth Gilbert
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
-Cormac McCarthy
"The Road"
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
-Eddie Cantor
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
-Paulo Coelho
It is a reality of life that affection is not always reciprocated.
-Alison Gardner
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
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"
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
-Charles Buxton
