Life!
What is life?
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? Shakespeare
“Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.” Shakespeare
“Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.” Shakespeare
“So fair and foul a day I have not seen.” Shakespeare
“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.” Shakespeare
“You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” —Maya Angelou
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” —Robert Brault
“The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.” —Leonard I. Sweet
“Life has got those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.” —Nicole Kidman
“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” —Alice Walker
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne Gretzky
“Life is a long lesson in humility.” —James M. Barrie
“You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.” —Oprah Winfrey
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” —Joseph Campbell
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” —Winston Churchill
“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.” —Nikki Giovanni
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” —Lao Tzu
“Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is: Am I doing what I’m good at?” —Max Levchin
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” —Jim Rohn
“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” —Les Brown
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” —Maya Angelou
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” —Gloria Steinem
“We become what we think about most of the time.” —Earl Nightingale“Life is very interesting…in the end,
some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” —Drew Barrymore
“Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.” —Helen Keller“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” —Charles Dickens
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
Mark Twain
“To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me”
― Isaac Newton
Man in the Arena
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
زندگی
پیامِ مشرق
علامہ اقبال
شبی زار نالید ابر بھار
کہ این زندگی گریۂ پیھم است
درخشید برق سبک سیر و گفت
خطا کردہ ئی خندۂ یکدم است
ندانم بہ گلشن کہ برد این خبر
سخنہا میان گل و شبنم است
‘Zindagi’ Allama Iqbal's "Payam-e-Mashriq" (Message of the East)
On a gloomy night, grieved, the tears streaming from the pouring cloud of the spring season lamenting that life is nothing but weeping. You misunderstood the meaning of life; it is to smile, said the lightning that decorated the sky in the meantime.
I have no idea who brought this news from the skies to my garden, but I overheard a discourse about life between a dew drop in the shape of a tear and a flower's smile.
