What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
-Nelson Mandela "Nelson Mandela"
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
-Coco Chanel
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, We live a little while. We die.
-E. B. White
"Charlotte's Web"
He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.
-Garth Stein
"The Art of Racing in the Rain"
Life is a festival only to the wise.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Surely my prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are (all) for Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
‘New’ is a beautiful word which opens up many possibilities. If every day can be viewed as ‘New’ then, life blossoms - like new leaves, buds, flowers and fruit - full of colour, fragrance, taste and rasa: the very essence of living.
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"White Nights"
Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.
-Richelle Mead
"Last Sacrifice"
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
-Søren Kierkegaard