The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Life
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"
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
-Coco Chanel
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
-Ernest Hemingway
Life is given to us; we earn it by giving it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
-Emily Dickinson
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
-Audrey Hepburn
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.
-Sylvia Plath
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement; this is the final truth.
-Ramana Maharshi
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
