Life Quotes
“Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.”
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
-- Abraham Lincoln
“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.”
-- George Bernard Shaw
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”
-- Carl Jung
“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.”
-- Michael Jackson
“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
-- Henry David Thoreau