Live simply that others might simply live.
-Elizabeth Ann Seton
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
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"
The evil ruler spoils the word, the plan of life, by his teachings. He, indeed, deprives me of the exalted goal of good thought. With the word of my spirit, I pray to You, O Wise One, and to truth!
-Scriptures "Avesta, Yasna 32.9"
Death is extraordinarily like life when we know how to live.
-J. Krishnamurti
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
-Cormac McCarthy
"The Road"
Life is like a 1,000 page book. You want to quit halfway through, but then you realise you have a lot left to look forward to.
-Anonymous "Anonymous"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard”, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what?
-Sydney J. Harris
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
-Confucius
