After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, We live a little while. We die.
-E. B. White
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Live every day as if it were going to be your last; for one day you're sure to be right.
-Harry "Breaker" Harbord Morant
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
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
He who loves me is made pure; his heart melts in joy. He rises to transcendental consciousness by the rousing of his higher emotional nature. Tears of joy flow from his eyes, his hair stands on end, his heart melts in love. The bliss in that state is so intense that, forgetful of himself and his surroundings, he sometimes weeps profusely, or laughs, or sings, or dances; such a devotee is a purifying influence upon the whole universe.
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain; you look for it in vain.
-Antonio Porchia
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
The "world" is expanding on the Principle of Evolution. This expansion is
not just confined to its time and space but is also taking place at the level of
consciousness; which too has gradually traversed from being an amoeba to a
human being.
-Deep Trivedi