Quotations
Life
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston S. Churchill
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
- Dalai Lama Xiv
Nature's creation is such that whatever is worth attaining or beneficial for us, we
can get it automatically. But in the race to grab the things which are futile and
painful, we miss attaining them only.
- Deep Trivedi
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
- Cormac McCarthy
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.
- Garth Stein
Not being dead isn't being alive.
- E. E. Cummings
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