Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
-Bertrand Russell
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
-Bertrand Russell
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
-Kurt Vonnegut
"The Sirens of Titan"
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement; this is the final truth.
-Ramana Maharshi
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.
There are those who spend their lives arguing which is better, the crescent moon or the full. Then there are a few who revel in both for they know The Moon is One.
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.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
-Marcus Aurelius
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
-George Washington Carver