When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
-George Washington Carver
Quotations
Life
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
-Leo Tolstoy
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"
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
-Charlie Chaplin
Life is life – Whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
-Sri Aurobindo
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana
If you closely observe life, you will find, here with every pleasure there is pain...
and with every pain, pleasure. Hence, among all that is happening, if you keep
your eyes fixed only at the brighter side of it, you can always be happy.
-Deep Trivedi
Life only begins to be an adventure when we cease living it for ourselves.
-Joel S. Goldsmith
