You can get all A's and still flunk life.
-Walker Percy
"The Second Coming"
Quotations
Life
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"
A sacrifice is a gift of the essence or the product of our lives. It may be a gift of our time, a gift of our talent, or a gift of our treasure.
-John Garmo "John Garmo"
What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.
-Robert Brault
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
-George Washington Carver
You have crossed the great ocean; why do you halt so near the shore? Make haste to get on the other side, Gautama; be careful all the while!
-Scriptures "Uttaradhyayana Sutra 10.34"
Surely my prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are (all) for Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
-Quran "Quran 6.162"
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
-Maya Angelou
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive.
-George Allen "George Allen"
