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.
Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
-Wilson Mizner
One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
-Agatha Christie
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
-Paulo Coelho
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware. Joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
-Henry Miller
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
-Marcus Aurelius
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"
However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
-Henry David Thoreau
Life is a festival only to the wise.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
-Hilary Cooper