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.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "The XIV Dalai Lama"
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.
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"
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
-Irving Berlin
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
-Gustave Flaubert
However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
-Henry David Thoreau
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
-William Goldman
If you really wish to strengthen your individuality and accomplish something
great in life, then recognize the presence of "witness". Only because it is there,
you can feel that you are working.
-Deep Trivedi
A successful life is the one which has no desires left in the mind at the time of
death.
-Deep Trivedi