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"
Quotations
Life
-Bodhidharma "Bodhidharma"
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
-Paulo Coelho
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
-Ayn Rand
Learning is retained through putting into practice; family prestige is maintained through good behavior; a respectable person is recognised by his excellent qualities; and anger is seen in the eyes.
-Chanakya "Chanakya"
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Alchemist"
If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
-John Irving
"A Prayer for Owen Meany"
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
-Katharine Hepburn
"Me: Stories of My Life"
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
-Oscar Wilde
This isn't life in the fast lane. It's life in the oncoming traffic.
-Terry Pratchett
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
-Robert Louis Stevenson "R. L. Stevenson"
