There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Life
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
If you closely observe life, you will find, here with every pleasure there is pain...
and with every pain, pleasure. Hence, among all that is happening, if you keep
your eyes fixed only at the brighter side of it, you can always be happy.
-Deep Trivedi
If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
-John Irving
"A Prayer for Owen Meany"
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.
-Sylvia Plath
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
-Elizabeth Gilbert
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
-Katharine Hepburn
"Me: Stories of My Life"
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
-Edgar Allan Poe
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
-Nelson Mandela
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
-David "Dave" Barry
