The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Life
Life has been compared with a battle and rightly so, as each day comes up with a new set of challenges which we must meet. One cannot just shy away from problems if he has to survive. He has to meet to challenges with courage.
-Vedas "Sam Veda"
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people will spend it for you.
-Peter Shaffer
"Five Finger Exercise: A Play"
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
-Søren Kierkegaard
It's not that I believe everything happens for a reason. It's just that . . . I just think that some things are meant to be broken, imperfect and chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.
-Sarah Dessen
"The Truth About Forever"
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
-Alfred Adler
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
-Woody Allen
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
-Charlie Chaplin
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"
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
-Mark Twain
