Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
-Ayn Rand
Quotations
Life
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"
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-E. M. Forster
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Life only begins to be an adventure when we cease living it for ourselves.
-Joel S. Goldsmith
The principles of our mind and life are far more profound than the principles of
science. In fact, all the discoveries or inventions of science are also attributed to
the principles of mind and life.
-Deep Trivedi
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
-William Goldman
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed : By doing nothing.
-Ian McEwan
"On Chesil Beach"
