Life is given to us; we earn it by giving it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Quotations
Life
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
-Lauryn Hill
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
-Nelson Mandela
If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
-John Irving
"A Prayer for Owen Meany"
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"
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
-Epicurus
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
-Epicurus
You ask: What is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: Do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
-Freeman Dyson
"The Meaning of Life"
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement; this is the final truth.
-Ramana Maharshi
