The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
-Tom Bodett
Quotations
Life
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
-Edgar Allan Poe
It's not that I believe everything happens for a reason. It's just that . . . I just think that some things are meant to be broken, imperfect and chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.
-Sarah Dessen
"The Truth About Forever"
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
-Hal Borland "Hal Borland"
What difference does it make, whether you live in a big city or in a community of homes? The real life is within.
-Khalil Gibran
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
-Jean Cocteau
It’s better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
-Elizabeth Gilbert
"Eat, Pray, Love"
Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "The XIV Dalai Lama"
Not being dead isn't being alive.
-E. E. Cummings
