I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Alchemist"
Quotations
Life
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
-Bertrand Russell
Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "The XIV Dalai Lama"
I created you human beings because I desired to see you lead a joyous life.
-Scriptures "Ofudesaki 14.25"
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
-Paulo Coelho
"Eleven Minutes"
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life.
-Natalie Babbitt
"Tuck Everlasting"
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
-Socrates
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
-Alfred Adler
When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard”, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what?
-Sydney J. Harris
Just when I found out the meaning of life, they changed it.
-George Carlin
