Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.
-Sri Chaitanya "Sri Chaitanya"
Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.
-Kurt Cobain
Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
-Alan Moore
We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
-Lauryn Hill
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
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"White Nights"
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
-Leo Tolstoy
There are mental demons we fight and mental angels that we all carry around; it’s how we deal with them that will determine if we can deal with this thing called life.