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.
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
The devotee engages to the best of his or her ability into the play of life, fulfilling his or her role on this earth as student, employee, husband, wife…But at the heart of the devotee is a burning desire for the Lord.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-Anaïs Nin
There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...
-Mitch Albom
"The Five People You Meet in Heaven"
Goodness and holistic way of living go together.
-J. Krishnamurti
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
Life only begins to be an adventure when we cease living it for ourselves.
-Joel S. Goldsmith
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
-Eric Idle