I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Everything is Illuminated"
Quotations
Life
When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard”, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what?
-Sydney J. Harris
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-Abraham Lincoln
It is a good practice to set apart at least one day in a year for the remembrance of one’s near and dear relatives, friends and learned people that are no more in keeping with our traditions; giving a new orientation to and infusing new life into practices that have become lifeless and meaningless to many.
-Scriptures "The Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism"
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
-Tennessee Williams
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
-Alfred Adler
Of winter’s lifeless world each tree now seems a perfect part; Yet each one holds summer’s secret deep down within its heart.
-Charles G. Stater "Charles. G. Stater"
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
-Katharine Hepburn
"Me: Stories of My 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
