Of winter’s lifeless world each tree now seems a perfect part; Yet each one holds summer’s secret deep down within its heart.
-Charles G. Stater "Charles. G. Stater"
Of winter’s lifeless world each tree now seems a perfect part; Yet each one holds summer’s secret deep down within its heart.
This new life is endless, and even after my physical death it will be kept alive by those who live the life of complete renunciation of falsehood, lies, hatred, anger, greed and lust and who, to accomplish all this, do no lustful actions, do no harm to anyone.
He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.
-Garth Stein
"The Art of Racing in the Rain"
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.
Will science ever be able to create life? No way! The question simply does not
arise because here, no one has the power to create or destroy.
-Deep Trivedi
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
-Oscar Wilde
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
-Mae West
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
-Elbert Hubbard