When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
Quotations
Life
Not being dead isn't being alive.
-E. E. Cummings
You ask: What is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: Do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
-Freeman Dyson
"The Meaning of Life"
You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by.
-Nicholas Sparks "Nicholas Sparks"
When life is viewed as good, a bad day is easily absorbed.
-Neil Maxwell
Travel light on your journey in life. Your desires and expectations are heavy baggage which slow you down and thwart your progress. Let them go.
-A Spiritual Leader "Swami Chidanand Saraswati"
That best portion of a man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
-William Wordsworth
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
-Paulo Coelho
Life is like a 1,000 page book. You want to quit halfway through, but then you realise you have a lot left to look forward to.
-Anonymous "Anonymous"
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
-Hal Borland "Hal Borland"
