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
Quotations
Life
One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
-Agatha Christie
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"
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"
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
The secret of life is not enjoyment, but education through experience.
-Swami Vivekananda "Swami Vivekananda"
There are two ways of passing from this world – one in light, and one in darkness. When one passes in light he does not come back but when one passes in darkness he returns.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 8.26"
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
-Leo Tolstoy
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
-Jimi Hendrix
What most counts is not to live, but to live right.
-Socrates
