Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quotations
Life
The secret of life is not enjoyment, but education through experience.
-Swami Vivekananda "Swami Vivekananda"
Life is given to us; we earn it by giving it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
You say: “He lost his life” or “my life”, as if life were something that you can possess or lose. The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.
-Eckhart Tolle "Eckhart Tolle"
Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.
-Sri Chaitanya "Sri Chaitanya"
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
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
-Paulo Coelho
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
-Ambrose Bierce
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-Anaïs Nin
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
-Muriel Spark "Muriel Spark"
