The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Quotations
Life
It is a good practice to set apart at least one day in a year for the remembrance of one’s near and dear relatives, friends and learned people that are no more in keeping with our traditions; giving a new orientation to and infusing new life into practices that have become lifeless and meaningless to many.
-Scriptures "The Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism"
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a festival only to the wise.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘New’ is a beautiful word which opens up many possibilities. If every day can be viewed as ‘New’ then, life blossoms - like new leaves, buds, flowers and fruit - full of colour, fragrance, taste and rasa: the very essence of living.
-Sonal Mansingh "Sonal Mansingh"
There are those who spend their lives arguing which is better, the crescent moon or the full. Then there are a few who revel in both for they know The Moon is One.
-Quran "Qamar, “ The Moon” "
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil.
-Albert Schweitzer "Albert Schweitzer"
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"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
