That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
-Emily Dickinson
Quotations
Life
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
-Jean Cocteau
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
-Bertrand Russell
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
-Gustave Flaubert
Life has been compared with a battle and rightly so, as each day comes up with a new set of challenges which we must meet. One cannot just shy away from problems if he has to survive. He has to meet to challenges with courage.
-Vedas "Sam Veda"
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"
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"
It is not that you read a book, pass an examination and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
Life is a beach-I'm just playing in the sand.
-Lil Wayne
Live simply that others might simply live.
-Elizabeth Ann Seton
