Life only begins to be an adventure when we cease living it for ourselves.
-Joel S. Goldsmith
Quotations
Life
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
-Hans Christian Anderson
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"
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"White Nights"
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
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
-Oscar Wilde
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
-Tennessee Williams
