We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-E. M. Forster
Quotations
Life
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-Abraham Lincoln
Where there is love there is life.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The secret of life is not enjoyment, but education through experience.
-Swami Vivekananda "Swami Vivekananda"
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
-Proverbs "Sanskrit Proverb"
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
-Hans Christian Anderson
