The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, may have answered “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
“I know I’m not the one who is habitually optimistic…but just remember this: life is about love, lost feelings and lost evenings, about fire in our bellies and about furtive little feelings, and the aching amplitudes that set our needles all a-flickering. And they help us with remembering, that the only thing that’s left to do is live. After all the loving and the losing…the only thing that’s left to do is live.” – Frank Turner
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living. -Eckhart Tolle
“In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived, How well we have loved, How well we have learned to let go” ~ Jack Kornfield
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