There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
Quotations
Life
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"
It is a reality of life that affection is not always reciprocated.
-Alison Gardner
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
-Leo Tolstoy
Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
-Wilson Mizner
Life is our teacher. Life communicates with us all the time and it is a lesson to see how life continuously has led me to the people I need to meet, to the situations I need to experience, and to the places I need to be.
-Swami Dhyan Giten "Swami Dhyan Giten"
Who says life is fair, where is that written?
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
-Paulo Coelho
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
-Samuel Dickey Gordon "S. D. Gordon"
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
