There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Life
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 is given to us; we earn it by giving it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, Wow! What a Ride!
-Hunter S. Thompson
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
-George Washington Carver
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
-Mae West
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
-Muriel Spark "Muriel Spark"
If there is any planning worth undertaking in human life it is, when one breathes
his last neither should he have any guilt nor dissatisfaction... Despite doing
everything desired, still if he has any kind of remorse or discontent while bidding
goodbye to this world...then what did he do all his life?
-Deep Trivedi
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
-Plato
The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.
-Benny Bellamacina
"The king of Rhyme"
