Who says life is fair, where is that written?
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Who says life is fair, where is that written?
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
-Wilson Mizner
Of winter’s lifeless world each tree now seems a perfect part; Yet each one holds summer’s secret deep down within its heart.
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
-Emily Dickinson
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-Carl Gustav Jung
A sacrifice is a gift of the essence or the product of our lives. It may be a gift of our time, a gift of our talent, or a gift of our treasure.
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed : By doing nothing.
-Ian McEwan
"On Chesil Beach"