Life is only the present. And in the present, neither there is room for memories of
the past nor worries of the future. The root cause of all the miseries of life is the
effort to accommodate the past or future in the present.
-Deep Trivedi
Quotations
Life
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
-Julian Barnes
"Flaubert's Parrot"
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
-Marcus Aurelius
Die while you’re alive and be absolutely dead. Then do whatever you want: it’s all good.
-Anonymous
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"
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, We live a little while. We die.
-E. B. White
"Charlotte's Web"
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
-Mark Twain
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-Winston S. Churchill
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is but a dream for the dead.
-Gerard Way
