Quotations
Life
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
- Proverbs
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
- Epicurus
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
To be absolutely independent in each and every field of life, is your first and
foremost duty. If you are burdensome to anyone, for anything...then your life is
a complete waste.
- Deep Trivedi
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
- Oscar Wilde
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
- Muriel Spark
What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.
- Robert Brault
You ask: What is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: Do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
- Freeman Dyson
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
- Plato
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
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