Top 28 Quotes About Life Siddhartha
#1. Zarathustra received his revelations from the archangels at age thirty, when he began his prophetic mission; Siddhartha's great renunciation of his princely life took place in his thirtieth year. Thoreau at age thirty finished his self-imposed isolation at Walden Pond.
Kevin Dann
#2. I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.
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#3. Cancer is not a concentration camp, but it shares the quality of annihilation: it negates the possibility of life outside and beyond itself; it subsumes all living.
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#5. Cancer changes your life," a patient wrote after her mastectomy. "It alters your habits. ... Everything becomes magnified.
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#6. In the late 1940s, Saunders had tended to a Jewish refugee from Warsaw dying of cancer in London. The man had left Saunders his life savings - £500 - with a desire to be "a window in [her] home."577
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#7. But I assure you those are the correct lyrics that Robert Palmer sings." "No. It's addicted to love, Ships. Addicted to love," he enunciates while fighting back the laugh. "Not a dick with a glove." "Hmpf.
K. Bromberg
#8. We cannot have justification urged upon us too often or too much. Even if we learn it and understand it well, none of us grasps it perfectly or believes it with his whole heart. Our flesh is so frail and is often disobedient to the Spirit.
Martin Luther
#9. It is an old complaint about the practice of medicine that it inures you to the idea of death. But when medicine inures you to the idea of life, to survival, then it has failed utterly.
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#10. Being born a princess is all right, but behaving like one can be dangerous.
Siddhartha Choudhary
#11. The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
Salvador Dali
#12. If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.
Richard Baxter
#13. Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
Hermann Hesse
#14. The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.
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#15. Life is a video game, only difference is that you don't always get three chances!
Siddhartha Choudhary
#16. I don't know why I deserved the illness in the first place, but then I don't know why I deserved to be cured. Leukemia is like that. It mystifies you. It changes your life.
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#17. Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal.
Hermann Hesse
#18. They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.
Hermann Hesse
#19. What does it mean to be an oncologist? It means that you get to sit in at a moment of another person's life that is so hyper-acute, and not just because they're medically ill. It's also a moment of hope and expectation and concern.
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#21. Siddhartha Gautama said that "life has dissatisfaction" (dukkha). He didn't say that "life is suffering and nothing but suffering" - only that we all suffer in larger or smaller ways.
Doug Kraft
#22. Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.
Hermann Hesse
#23. No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
Don Foster
#24. Never do anything that is unpleasant to others.
Emily Post
#25. If you prefer an "academic life" as a retreat from reality, do not go into biology. This field is for a man or woman who wishes to get even closer to life. - Hermann Muller We
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#26. Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
#27. Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own.
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#28. Over a man's life, his semen grew into a mobile library of every part of the body - a condensed distillate of the self. This
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