You ask: What is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: Do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
-Freeman Dyson
"The Meaning of Life"
Quotations
Life
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
-Ayn Rand
You live but once; you might as well be amusing.
-Coco Chanel
I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.
-Charles M. Schulz
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
-Oprah Winfrey
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
-Robert Louis Stevenson "R. L. Stevenson"
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
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
-Charles Buxton
