Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Since I had cancer I've realised that every day is a bonus.

Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.

It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.

I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.

I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.

Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

To build up a future, you have to know the past.

Hope keeps you alive.

To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.

I care about facts the way I care about oxygen and imbibing enough water a day to live.

So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

This is the great fact: strength is life.

Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.

She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.

If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature.

But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge of a broken city, just beyond a towering city dump; and our arrival-hungry, and half-frozen, to a place of food and water and walls that keep out the brutal winds. This, for us, is heaven.

Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy. Sometimes we don't feel that way because of the wounds and the scars we carry from the past or because of the uncertainty of the future. It is doubtful that we came to feel undeserving on our own. We were helped to feel unworthy. We were taught it in a thousand ways when we were little, and we learned our lessons well.