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
Quotations
Life
You can get all A's and still flunk life.
-Walker Percy
"The Second Coming"
However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
-Henry David Thoreau
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
-Oscar Wilde
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
-Eddie Cantor
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
-Plato "Plato"
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
The evil ruler spoils the word, the plan of life, by his teachings. He, indeed, deprives me of the exalted goal of good thought. With the word of my spirit, I pray to You, O Wise One, and to truth!
-Scriptures "Avesta, Yasna 32.9"
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
-Søren Kierkegaard
When the sustenance of our life is so dependent on the thousands of inventions
of the scientists and the peace, bliss and happiness is bestowed by the great
artists, then how can we revere them any less than Krishna, Buddha or Christ?
-Deep Trivedi
