Quotations on Life

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is."
-- Albert Einstein

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
-- Lily Tomlin

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-- Robert Frost

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"
-- Albert Einstein

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
-- John Lennon

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys."
-- Martin Luther King

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."
-- James Dean

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
-- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."
-- Maria Robinson

"If you rest, you rust."
-- Helen Hayes

"What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got."
-- Stephen Hawking

"In the end, everything is a gag."
-- Charlie Chaplin

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
-- Issac Asimov

"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change."
-- BUDDHA

"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."
-- Stephen Covey

"We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions."
-- Richard Steele

"I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less. "
-- Eddie Izzard

"Life is a building. It rises slowly, day by day, through the years. Every new lesson we learn lays a block on the edifice which is rising silently within us. Every experience, every touch of another life on ours, every influence that impresses us, every book we read, every conversation we have, every act of our commonest days adds to the invisible building."
-- J. R. Miller

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
-- Mother Teresa