Creation

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

Srimad Bhagavatam III.2

Tao begets One; one begets two; two begets three; three begets all things. All things are backed by yin and yang, and harmonized by ch'i or the immaterial Breath.

Tao Te Ching

God became man, that man might become God.

St Athanasius

Life is a child playing around your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.

Jean Anoulih

We do not have a childhood, a maturity, an old age: several times during our lives we have our seasons, but their course is not well known: it is not clearly laid out.

Jules Renard

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training of a mere beginner.

Lewis Mumford

There are men here and there for whom the whole of life is like an after dinner cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten before the end is told.

Joseph Conrad