Quotes About Life

If you want God as a tranquilizer, it is okay as an idea, but if you want the Divine to be an awakening process in your life, an idea is not good enough.

people who have failed in their lives, they are suffering their failure. People who have succeeded in their life, they are suffering their success.

The longing for peace has essentially come from troubled minds, minds that are torturing themselves. For them, peace is a big commodity that they have to seek. If you are not using your mind for self-torture, why would you think of peace? Would you seek the exuberance of life or would you seek peace? Only if you have become an expert in self-torture, peace seems to be the greatest thing.

Life is a circus when your intellect and your body alone are involved. Life is a dance, when the intelligence begins to play its role.

Children only come through you, you don't create them. It is a privilege that they have happened through you. Enjoy the privilege; don't think of it as an authority. Just enjoy the privilege that another life chose to come through you into this world.

In the process of creating what we want, in pursuit of our happiness, we are just destroying the very source of our life, this planet; we are making a bonfire out of it. But still we are not satisfied, nor are we any more joyful than what people were five hundred years ago.

There is a Force within That gives you life Seek that. —Rumi

Life is one kind of sound. Death is another kind of sound. Those who cannot hear the sound of death think death is silence. Death is not silence, it is just another kind of sound, but may not within the hearing range of a normal ear.

Searching for truth is itself a big illusion because whatever we term the truth is always and everywhere. We don't have to search for it; we don't have to seek it; it always is. Now the only problem is your inability to experience life beyond what you call mind; or right now your capability to experience life only through the limited dimension that we call mind. That is the only problem.

There is no such thing as death. There is only life, life, and life alone - moving from one dimension to another.

The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

If you think hundred percent logically, there is really no possibility of life.

A human is not a being; he is a becoming. He is an ongoing process – a possibility. For this possibility to be made use of, there is a whole system of understanding the mechanics of how this life functions and what we can do with it, which we refer to as yoga.

La vida es muy corta como para ser aburrido. Lo principal es quedar bien contigo mismo.

así es la vida, guapo. uno sueña con ser feliz, pero sólo se da de cabezazos en la pared. yo sigo soñando, y todavía te quiero y te digo gracias por las pocas veces que me amaste y me hiciste sentir tuyo.

A veces se da uno cuenta, repentinamente, de que la vida es torpe y vacía, y se echa uno a reír

Supe, hace rato, que estaba alegre porque me puse a cantar y a decirle al locutor que era un tonto y a la vida que era estupenda.

Es aquí en la vida en donde tengo que encontrar remedio de la vida. Y una buena receta es el amor y el saber mirar por encima de mi hombro mis propias penas.

Me conmueves toda tú representando tu vida con esa pasión tan torpe y tan limpia, como el que quiere matarse para contar: soy suicida.

Qué hago yo aquí? A veces se da uno cuenta, repentinamente, de que la vida es torpe y vacía, y se echa uno a reír.

Tiene uno, como la naturaleza, sus estaciones, sus ciclos de vida? En el curso de quince o veinte días pasa una primavera y un verano en el fondo del alma, y luego viene un día violento en que nos quedamos sin hojas, y fríos, e inmóviles.

El poema es el momento en que se capta con la sangre el pensamiento de la vida.

Es que hacemos las cosas sólo para recordarlas? ¿Es que vivimos sólo para tener memoria de nuestra vida? Porque sucede que hasta la esperanza es memoria y que el deseo es el recuerdo de lo que ha de venir.

Los árboles esperan: tú no esperes, éste es el tiempo de vivir, el único.