56 Quotes About Rat-race

Stop running side races and wonder why the finish line doesn’t have anyone at the end of it clapping for you.

People here are funny. They work so hard at living, they forget how to live.

A few trees stand at a distance from each other. All have rough trunks. Each thinks that the other have smooth trunk because everything looks smooth from a distance. They all are chasing a smoothness that doesn't even exist. This is Maya.

Transparent children of God, competing with each other to look different, have put on layers and layers of colourful illusions.

There are many religions in society but society itself is the super-religion. It says, "You are a nobody. All your life you have to try and become somebody. You are a pathetic bio-mass. You have no divine existence." Surprisingly, everybody follows this crazy super-religion.

Life without knowing your destiny leads to “rat races”, depression and frustration, and attempt to commit suicide

A homeless beggar is not in pain, His condition remains the same; he has become used to it. You are in pain because your condition is constantly changing. If a neighbour gets better car than yours, your condition has changed!

The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.

It’s in the solace that I better understand the rat-race. For in the solace I have both the gifts of space and time to understand the rat-race, when I am otherwise consumed by the singular act of surviving it.