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
Life is such a business, where for every gain you have to lose something.
'Losing less - Gaining more' is what defines success in business here.
'Big loss - Small gain' is a loss making deal in life... At the same time, depriving
yourself of the gain, out of fear of loss is utter stupidity.
-Deep Trivedi
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
Learning is retained through putting into practice; family prestige is maintained through good behavior; a respectable person is recognised by his excellent qualities; and anger is seen in the eyes.
-Chanakya "Chanakya"
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-George Bernard Shaw
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
-Gustave Flaubert
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
-Paulo Coelho
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
-Jean Cocteau
