Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Life
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
-Benjamin Franklin
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
-Ambrose Bierce
Travel light on your journey in life. Your desires and expectations are heavy baggage which slow you down and thwart your progress. Let them go.
-A Spiritual Leader "Swami Chidanand Saraswati"
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
-Ayn Rand
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
-Bodhidharma "Bodhidharma"
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Alchemist"
People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Witch Of Portobello"
Life is a festival only to the wise.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
