Life is a festival only to the wise.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a festival only to the wise.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-John Lennon
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
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
-Julian Barnes
"Flaubert's Parrot"
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-Abraham Lincoln
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"