We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-E. M. Forster
Quotations
Life
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
-Proverbs "Sanskrit Proverb"
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life.
-Natalie Babbitt
"Tuck Everlasting"
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.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sri Sathya Sai Baba"
Life is a journey towards the unknown. An empty mind is useful in that journey rather than a mind filled with past.
-J. Krishnamurti
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction is to live twice.
-Khalil Gibran
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"
It is not that you read a book, pass an examination and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
