However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Life
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.
-Sri Chaitanya "Sri Chaitanya"
All your efforts at the end are nothing, but inviting pains and pleasures in life,
whereas to be steadfast in your 'being' no effort is required. The best part is,
there is only joy and happiness, not just for one but for hundreds of reasons.
-Deep Trivedi
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-Carl Gustav Jung
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
-Virginia Woolf
