In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
-Charles Buxton
Quotations
Life
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
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
What most counts is not to live, but to live right.
-Socrates
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
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
-Robert Brault
The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.
-Benny Bellamacina
"The king of Rhyme"
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
-Proverbs "Sanskrit Proverb"
Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "The XIV Dalai Lama"
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people will spend it for you.
-Peter Shaffer
"Five Finger Exercise: A Play"
