How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Life
Do not race after riches, do not risk your life for success, or you will let slip the heaven within you.
-Scriptures "Chuang Tzu 29"
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
-Ayn Rand
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"
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
-Henry David Thoreau "Henry David Thoreau"
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
-Alfred Adler
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv
What difference does it make, whether you live in a big city or in a community of homes? The real life is within.
-Khalil Gibran
How soon you overcome each incident, good or bad happening with you reveals
how deeply you understand life?
-Deep Trivedi
