What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
-Nelson Mandela "Nelson Mandela"
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
-Helen Keller
‘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.
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
-Gustave Flaubert
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
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may… meet with great misfortunes.
-Aristotle
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
-Paulo Coelho
Every chapter in the Book of Life defines our character and tells us who we are