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.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
-Bertrand Russell
Life is busy. There are daily obligations that have to be met. Take time to think about how precious and special human life is - you only get one such life. Every wasted minute is lost. You can’t get it back.
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-Anaïs Nin
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
-Leo Tolstoy
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement; this is the final truth.
-Ramana Maharshi
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
-Oscar Wilde
Live simply that others might simply live.
-Elizabeth Ann Seton
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.