Life Quotes Quote by George Bernard Shaw — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”

“The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.”

“We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.”

“The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.”

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.”

“Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”

“Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.”

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”

““About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural world is wonderful enough—and even miraculous enough if you insist—I attract pitying looks and anxious questions. How, in that case, I am asked, do I find meaning and purpose in life? How does a mere and gross materialist, with no expectation of a life to come, decide what, if anything, is worth caring about?”