How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Life
We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
-Lauryn Hill
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
-Dalai Lama
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
-Plato "Plato"
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"
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches and thoughts. And the consequences, whether good or bad of even the least of them, are far-reaching.
-Swami Sivananda "Swami Sivananda"
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
-Tennessee Williams
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
-Paulo Coelho
There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
-Logan P. Smith
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
