The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Life
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
-Charles Buxton
If there is any planning worth undertaking in human life it is, when one breathes
his last neither should he have any guilt nor dissatisfaction... Despite doing
everything desired, still if he has any kind of remorse or discontent while bidding
goodbye to this world...then what did he do all his life?
-Deep Trivedi
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The evil ruler spoils the word, the plan of life, by his teachings. He, indeed, deprives me of the exalted goal of good thought. With the word of my spirit, I pray to You, O Wise One, and to truth!
-Scriptures "Avesta, Yasna 32.9"
That best portion of a man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
-William Wordsworth
Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don’t hold on to the ball.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
-Elbert Hubbard
You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by.
-Nicholas Sparks "Nicholas Sparks"
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
