It is a good practice to set apart at least one day in a year for the remembrance of one’s near and dear relatives, friends and learned people that are no more in keeping with our traditions; giving a new orientation to and infusing new life into practices that have become lifeless and meaningless to many.
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed : By doing nothing.
-Ian McEwan
"On Chesil Beach"
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people will spend it for you.
-Peter Shaffer
"Five Finger Exercise: A Play"
Life is busy. There are daily obligations that have to be met. Take time to think about how precious and special human life is - you only get one such life. Every wasted minute is lost. You can’t get it back.
You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
-David Nicholas
If you closely observe life, you will find, here with every pleasure there is pain...
and with every pain, pleasure. Hence, among all that is happening, if you keep
your eyes fixed only at the brighter side of it, you can always be happy.
-Deep Trivedi
It’s better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
-Elizabeth Gilbert
"Eat, Pray, Love"
It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life. It's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!
-Robert T. Kiyosaki
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-Anaïs Nin
Life without freedom is like a body without a soul, and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit…
