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 "Bodhidharma"
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.
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.
-Sylvia Plath
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Life is given to us; we earn it by giving it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
-Paulo Coelho
Our energy level decides which state of mind we will live in. More the energy
accumulated in us...deeper the state of mind we begin to dwell in.
-Deep Trivedi
Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
-Hilary Cooper
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
"The Art of Racing in the Rain"
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
-George Bernard Shaw
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.