Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Quotations
Life
You have crossed the great ocean; why do you halt so near the shore? Make haste to get on the other side, Gautama; be careful all the while!
-Scriptures "Uttaradhyayana Sutra 10.34"
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
-George Washington Carver
Life is only the present. And in the present, neither there is room for memories of
the past nor worries of the future. The root cause of all the miseries of life is the
effort to accommodate the past or future in the present.
-Deep Trivedi
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
-Henry Miller
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-John Lennon
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
-Proverbs "Sanskrit Proverb"
Human life is full off the play of samskaras, tendencies developed by repeated actions.
-Vinoba Bhave "Vinoba Bhave"
