Quotes on Life And Living

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.