15 Exceptional Quotes About This Most Exceptional Thing Called Life
Originally published at lmt-lss.com on April 26, 2016.
Life is rare and crazy, and its journey exceptional.
Life is such a rare and precious gem. You may not think of it this way living in this planet, especially if you’re from a highly populated country like India where every street corner is teeming with life. But it’s indeed the case if you think of the whole universe and the very, very tiny — frankly, negligible — place we hold in the grand scheme of things. But with the scales of chance tilting ever so slightly towards the existence of life, we’re here, and we’re alive — living this highly exceptional, and highly mysterious, thing called life.
Many of the greats who’ve come before us and who’ve taken all the chances they could in life to “suck out all the marrow of life,” like Thoreau once said, have left us their wisdom about this crazy, exceptional thing called life. Here are 15 amazing quotes.
1. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius
2. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
Cesare Pavese
3. “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
4. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw
5. “Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”
Leonardo da Vinci
6. “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
Bertrand Russell
7. “Don’t be afraid your life will end. Be afraid that it will never begin.”
Grace Hansen
8. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
Dr. Seuss
9. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
10. “I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family — and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.”
Frank Sinatra
11. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it’s all that matters.”
Audrey Hepburn
12. “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.”
Eminem
13. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln
14. “When you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.”
Native American Cherokee Proverb
15. “It ain’t over till it’s over.”
Yogi Berra
