We are always getting ready to live but never living.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Life
If you wish to understand mind and life, then religion or institutes will not be
able to teach you. For that, you will have to carefully observe all the natural
phenomena and events unfolding around you.
-Deep Trivedi
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction is to live twice.
-Khalil Gibran
Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
-Hilary Cooper
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-Søren Kierkegaard
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
-Henry David Thoreau
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life.
-Natalie Babbitt
"Tuck Everlasting"
He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.
-Garth Stein
"The Art of Racing in the Rain"
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
-Ernest Hemingway
