You have crossed the great ocean; why do you halt so near the shore? Make haste to get on the other side, Gautama; be careful all the while!
-Scriptures "Uttaradhyayana Sutra 10.34"
Quotations
Life
-Scriptures "Uttaradhyayana Sutra 10.34"
All your efforts at the end are nothing, but inviting pains and pleasures in life,
whereas to be steadfast in your 'being' no effort is required. The best part is,
there is only joy and happiness, not just for one but for hundreds of reasons.
-Deep Trivedi
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
-Elizabeth Gilbert
If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
-John Irving
"A Prayer for Owen Meany"
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
-Robert Louis Stevenson "R. L. Stevenson"
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
-Jim Rohn
What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.
-Robert Brault
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-Abraham Lincoln
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
-Henry Miller
