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.
Of winter’s lifeless world each tree now seems a perfect part; Yet each one holds summer’s secret deep down within its heart.
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
That best portion of a man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
-William Wordsworth
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard”, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what?
-Sydney J. Harris
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
-Arthur Rubinstein
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
-Søren Kierkegaard