Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive.

A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV

Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

I do not know if I really am a big star. And in fact that is not the most important thing for me. What counts in life is to bring about more of your own dreams. In such a way that your life becomes like a fairy tale. This is what has happened to me, it is just like that.

I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.

I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.

The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Life is not measured by the time we live.

Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be so. What makes life dreary is the want of motive; but once beginning to act with the penitential, loving purpose you have in your mind, there will be unexpected satisfactions--there will be newly-opening needs--continually coming to carry you on from day to day. You will find your life growing like a plant.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

I gradually stopped wondering, ‘What life do I have?' and began to consider, ‘What life can I build?

The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.

A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.

I Intend to Take Time for Myself to Live the Life that I Came Here to Live.

Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.