Quotations
Life
The evil ruler spoils the word, the plan of life, by his teachings. He, indeed, deprives me of the exalted goal of good thought. With the word of my spirit, I pray to You, O Wise One, and to truth!
- Scriptures
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
When the sustenance of our life is so dependent on the thousands of inventions
of the scientists and the peace, bliss and happiness is bestowed by the great
artists, then how can we revere them any less than Krishna, Buddha or Christ?
- Deep Trivedi
What most counts is not to live, but to live right.
- Socrates
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
- Bodhidharma
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed : By doing nothing.
- Ian McEwan
Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.
- Sri Chaitanya
If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
- John Irving
He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.
- Garth Stein
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
- Nelson Mandela
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