Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Quotations
Life
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware. Joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
-Henry Miller
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Everything is Illuminated"
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
-William Shakespeare
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-E. M. Forster
Who says life is fair, where is that written?
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches and thoughts. And the consequences, whether good or bad of even the least of them, are far-reaching.
-Swami Sivananda "Swami Sivananda"
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.
-Vivian Greene
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement; this is the final truth.
-Ramana Maharshi
