There are two ways of passing from this world – one in light, and one in darkness. When one passes in light he does not come back but when one passes in darkness he returns.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 8.26"
There are two ways of passing from this world – one in light, and one in darkness. When one passes in light he does not come back but when one passes in darkness he returns.
You can get all A's and still flunk life.
-Walker Percy
"The Second Coming"
You say: “He lost his life” or “my life”, as if life were something that you can possess or lose. The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
-Tennessee Williams
One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
-Agatha Christie
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed : By doing nothing.
-Ian McEwan
"On Chesil Beach"
Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
-John Wayne
You live but once; you might as well be amusing.
-Coco Chanel
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
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
-Friedrich Nietzsche