Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Quotations
Life
He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.
-Garth Stein
"The Art of Racing in the Rain"
Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "The XIV Dalai Lama"
Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
-Eckhart Tolle
It’s better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
-Elizabeth Gilbert
"Eat, Pray, Love"
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people will spend it for you.
-Peter Shaffer
"Five Finger Exercise: A Play"
Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
-Wilson Mizner
Rise to the occasion which is life!
-Virginia Euwer Wolff
This isn't life in the fast lane. It's life in the oncoming traffic.
-Terry Pratchett
Life is only the present. And in the present, neither there is room for memories of
the past nor worries of the future. The root cause of all the miseries of life is the
effort to accommodate the past or future in the present.
-Deep Trivedi
