You can get all A's and still flunk life.
-Walker Percy
"The Second Coming"
Quotations
Life
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
-Epicurus
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-Oscar Wilde
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
-Ernest Hemingway
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
-Paulo Coelho
Life is given to us; we earn it by giving it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
-Bill Watterson
It’s better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
-Elizabeth Gilbert
"Eat, Pray, Love"
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-Voltaire
Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don’t hold on to the ball.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
