It is a good practice to set apart at least one day in a year for the remembrance of one’s near and dear relatives, friends and learned people that are no more in keeping with our traditions; giving a new orientation to and infusing new life into practices that have become lifeless and meaningless to many.
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
-Ronald Reagan
Life loves the liver of it.
-Maya Angelou
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-Winston S. Churchill
‘New’ is a beautiful word which opens up many possibilities. If every day can be viewed as ‘New’ then, life blossoms - like new leaves, buds, flowers and fruit - full of colour, fragrance, taste and rasa: the very essence of living.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
-Irving Berlin
