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"
Quotations
Life
-Bodhidharma "Bodhidharma"
Learning is retained through putting into practice; family prestige is maintained through good behavior; a respectable person is recognised by his excellent qualities; and anger is seen in the eyes.
-Chanakya "Chanakya"
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-Oscar Wilde
The secret of life is not enjoyment, but education through experience.
-Swami Vivekananda "Swami Vivekananda"
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow. Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings.
-Jonathan. L. Huie "Jonathan. L. Huie"
Life is life – Whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
-Sri Aurobindo
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
-Tennessee Williams
