When we see everything in life as a game, we will be equally joyous when falling as we are when rising. If we can fully understand this – if we can see life as swinging on a swing – we will never fall apart when failure comes our way.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
-Oprah Winfrey
To be absolutely independent in each and every field of life, is your first and
foremost duty. If you are burdensome to anyone, for anything...then your life is
a complete waste.
-Deep Trivedi
Life loves the liver of it.
-Maya Angelou
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
-Ernest Hemingway
One’s entire life is a continuous process of learning. Any process of inquiry is related to learning. But basically our inquiry should be concerned with finding out what is transient and what is permanent. This is true knowledge.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
-Carl Gustav Jung
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
-Confucius
