Abraham Joshua Heschel

"Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy."

Adlai Stevenson
"It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts."
Adyashanti
"Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through
you."
Agatha Christie
"One does what one can, not what one cannot."
Ahmed Hafez
"life is a matter of freedom that needs your full control.
Ajahn Brahm
"What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it
says 'Be still and know you are God.' What is this? You are peace,
compassion, truth, Love, freedom. Real love- the ability to love yourself so
much that you forgive everything and you are at peace with yourself like a
mother loves a child, not trying to be someone."
Alan Lakein
"Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master
your time and master your life."
Alan Watts
"Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in this
moment.
Albert Camus
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness
consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
Albert D'Souza
"For a long time it has seemed to me that life was about to begin; Real life.
But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got
through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be
paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles
were my life."
Albert Einstein
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a
miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Aldous Huxley
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what
happens to him."
Alexander McCall Smith
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month
practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of
childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are
bound to one another with hoops of steel.
Alexander McCall Smith, In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they
not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the
land?
Alfred Adler
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch
where it itches."
Alice Walker
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
Amonte' Martin
If you are alive today means yesterday was a blessing because tomorrow
isnt promised.
Amy Tan
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
Anais Nin
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."Life shrinks or
expands in proportion to one's courage"People living deeply have no fear
of death."
Andre Gide
"Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else."
Andr Maurois
"If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds,
they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they
failed to obtain."
Anirban Bose
There is such dissociation between what the eyes see and what the mind
envisions. The final thought is just a matter of interpretation, coloured by
our experiences.
Ann Landers
"Love can make up for a great many things that are missing in your life.
But, if you don't have love, no matter what else you have, it is never
enough."
Ann Patchett
Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily
mean they had gone wrong.
Anne Coleman
"Life's about the journey, not a destination."
Anne Dillard
"The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole
heart."
Anne Frank
"How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling
asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the while day and
consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then, without realizing it
you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you
achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs
nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn
and find by experience that: "A quiet conscience mades one strong!
Anthony Hopkins
"I love life because what more is there."
Anton Chekov
"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."
Antonio Porchia
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Aristotle
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Arthur C Clarke
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them...
Arthur Gordon
"No one lives on the top of the mountain. Its fine to go there occasionally
for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is
lived in the valleys. Thats where the farms and gardens and orchards are,
and where the plowing and the work is done. Thats where you apply the
visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks."
Arthur Rubinstein
"...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional
acceptance of life and what it brings.""I accept life unconditionally. Most
people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you
don't set any condition."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the
masks are dropped."
Arundhati Roy
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never
get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around
you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To
never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect
strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To
never look away. And never, never, to forget.
Ashley Smith
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and
the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the
fullest potential..."
Audre Lorde
"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now."
Audrey Hepburn
The most important thing is to enjoy your lifeto be happyit's all that
matters.
Aulus Persius Flaccus
"We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays."
Barbara De Angelis
"No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are
special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of
who you are, has meaning.""No matter what age you are, or what your
circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something
unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning."
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life
Benjamin Disraeli
"We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance."
Benjamin E. Mays
"I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and
distinctive."
Bernie Siegel
"Everyday is my best day; this is my life; I am not going to have this
moment again."
Beverly Donofrio
One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three
or four big days that change everything.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho)
"Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that
he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware of what he is saying,
of what nonsense he is talking. If you are wise, this will be the first
realization: life cannot be understood. Understanding is impossible. Only
this much can be understood -- that understanding is impossible."
Bill Ayers
You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of
your values.
Blaise Pascal
"All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their
inability to sit quietly."
Bob Marley
"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts,
don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't
bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality... Open your eyes, look within.
Are you satisfied with the life you're living?"
Boris Pasternak
"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life."
Brendan Gill
"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."
Brian Tracy
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward what happens to you. In that, you will be mastering change rather
than allowing it to master you.
Bruce Lee
"Real living is living for others.""Always be yourself, express yourself, have
faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and
duplicate it."
Buddha
"He who experiences the unity of life, sees his own Self in all beings, all
beings in his own."
Byron Katie
"Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you... at exactly the right
moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just
easier if you do."
C. JoyBell C.
The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can
grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The
only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can
become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw
yourself.
C. S. Lewis
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you
learn."
C.W. Fortney
"I have learned that the greatest things.......in life 'are not' things at all."
Carl Sagan
"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing
universe."
Carlos Ruiz Zafn
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already
complicated enough.
Carrie Fisher
"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
Cassandra Clare
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either
way, but its the way you live your life that matters.
Cecelia Ahern
That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't
expect them or want them.
Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa) Eastman
Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give
what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.
Charles Baudelaire
"He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul."
Charles Darwin
"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value
of life.""A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the
value of life."
Charles Lindbergh
"Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an
indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of
divinity to matter."
Charles M. Schultz (Charlie Brown)
In the book of life, the answers arent in the back."Don't worry about the
world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.""My life
has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I
can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"
Charles Morgan
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular
mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without
being disappointed by the change, for happiness, like a child, must be
allowed to grow up
Charles R. Swindoll
"The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking
thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with
the kind of information that will set us free."
Charlotte Bront, Jane Eyre
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with
the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be
spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." - Helen Burns
Christopher Paolini, Eragon
First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your
thoughts remain unfettered... . Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show
respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic
and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior whatever their
rank or station in life. Treat all fairly, or they will seek revenge. Be careful
with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen.
Clara Schumann
"My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end
doesn't each person give his life for his calling?"
Clarence Francis
"I sincerely believe the word "relationships" is the key to the prospect of a
decent world [and life]. It seems abundantly clear that every problem you
will have - in your family, in your business, in our nation, or in this world - is
essentially a matter of relationships, of interdependence."
Colleen Houck
(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of
normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never
access.
Confucius
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
D.H. Lawrence
Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes
one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
Dale Carnegie
Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way
to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on
outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.
Dan Millman
"Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until
you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no
matter what happens."
Dave Buck
"Greatness is a natural state - A state of wholeness, a state of balance
between mind, body and soul connection. In this state everything that you
are is available to respond to whatever the moment calls for. You are free,
you are boldly self-expressed. Greatness is not based on accomplishment -
it is available to anyone right now."
Dave. E Smalley
"The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are
rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for
adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the
unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions."
David Archuleta
I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I
prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don't go
the way we might like them to, it's a sign from above that something even
better is right around the corner.
David Herbert Lawrence
"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken."
David Korten
"If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced
relationship with one another and the Earth."
David Spangler
"It may seem hard to extend our gratefulness and appreciation to the time
in which we live and the challenges it presents... It would be much easier to
appreciate an era of good feeling, peace and calm stability! But difficult
times are also times of growth, of new insights and opportunities, of
creativity, and of emergence."
David Starr Jordan
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next [in life]; virtue is doing it."
Dee Dee M. Scott
Get away from these two types of people: the ones who think you can only
go as far as the situation you were born into; and the ones who think you
can only go as far as the current situation you are in.
Denis Waitley
"View life as a continuous learning experience.""Happiness cannot be
traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual
experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."
Denise Levertov
"Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life
who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is
primary, the focus."
Denzel Washington
What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present
themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or
reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times,
its about something that's completely out of their control."
Derek Acorah
"I'm very happy to say that my home life is my haven."
Derrick Jensen
"if we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and
ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a spiritual life filled not only with
pain and untidiness, but also with joy, community, and creativity.
Desiderius Erasmus
"The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance
of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like
children, neither tired of living nor aware of death."
Dolly Parton
"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."
Doris Mortman
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what
you have."
Douglas Adams
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I have ended up where I
needed to be.
Dr. Seuss
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't
matter and those who matter don't mind.""Don't cry because it's over. Smile
because it happened."
E.B. White
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely
challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn
between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This
makes it hard to plan the day.
E.E. Cummings
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
E.M. Forster
"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and
death.""We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to
have the life that is waiting for us."
Eckhart Tolle
"Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life
situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff.
Your life is real.""Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?,' a more
powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'"
Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness
that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.""Each
person's life each lifeform, in fact represents a world, a unique way in
which the universe experiences itself."
Edgar Cayce
"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions."
Edith Hamilton
"The fullness of life is in the hazards of life."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that
you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."Life was
meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for
whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to
accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our
lifetime."
Elizabeth Gilbert
Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's
perfectly. Thats the thing about a human life-theres no control group, no
way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had
been changed.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not
see."
Ellery Channing
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and
refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy,
not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars
and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all
bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden
and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my
symphony.
Ellyn Bache
But some climbs you have to make alone.
Emily Dickinson
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.""Find ecstasy in
life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."
Epictetus
"Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that
events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace."
Eric Butterworth
"Don't go through life, GROW through life."
Erica Jong
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no
one to blame.
Erika Harris
"At some point in my life, I swallowed a Sun. And now it dawns and sets in
my belly."
Erma Bombeck
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would
not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you
gave me'."
Eudora Welty
"Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through
travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it."
Eugene O'Neill
"Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
Euripides
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
Fay Weldon
"There seems to be a general overall pattern in most lives, that nothing
happens, and nothing happens, and then all of a sudden, everything
happens."
Frank Moore Colby
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and
are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on
asking them.
Franz Kafka
"The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of
itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion,
etc."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
Gail Sheehy
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security."
Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)
"All we have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to us."
Gangaji
"safety is knowing that when this particular life form is finished, what it has
served remains..."
Gary Crowley
"There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story,
no matter who's telling it."
Gary Emery
"Acceptance is a letting-go process. You let go of your wishes and
demands that life can be different. It's a conscious choice."
Gary Zukav
"Realize you are worthy of your life and live accordingly.""Your desintation
is a life of meaning, fulfillment, creativity and joy. A life free of fears,
obsessions, compulsions, and addictions, without the insecurities others
activates so easily and the torments they create in you. WHen you resist
your [life] experiences, you resist the guidance they offer. Anger,
resentment jealousy and fear each show you in their own way what you
need to change inside yourself in order to reach your destination. Are you
listening?""It is for you to decide what you will contribute to this world... Will
you contribute to the love that is in the world or the fear? This is the same
opportunity that presents itself each moment."
George Bernard Shaw
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a
hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations."
George Dennison Prentice
"It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in
what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the
world."
George Eliot
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences
that modify the being."
George Gurdjieff
"If you help others, you will be helped. Perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in a
hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a
mathematical law [and universal law] and all life is mathematics."
Gilda Radner
"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and
making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.
Grandma Moses
"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
Greg Anderson
"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that
need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live
life."
Greta Crosby
"If I could give you one key, and one key only to more abundant life, I
would give you a sense of your own worth, an unshakeable sense of your
own dignity as one grounded in the source of the cosmic dance, as one
who plays a unique part in the unfolding of the story of the world..."
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.
Hafiz
"Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life."
Hannibal
We will either find a way, or make one."
Hans Zimmer
"As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life
needs to be an adventure."
Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
"There are some kind of men who are so busy worrying about the next life,
they've never learned to live in this one."
Harriet Tubman
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have
within the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to
change the world."
Harvey Fierstein
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
Helen Keller
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."
Henri J. M. Nouwen
"The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper
into it."
Henri-Frederic Amiel
"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our
powers."
Henry David Thoreau
"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no
happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself."
Henry Ellis
"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
Henry L. Stimson
"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a
man trustworthy is to trust him."
Henry Miller
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously,
drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware...Forget yourself."Until we accept the
fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing."
Herman Melville
"We cannot live for ourselves. A thousand fibres connect us with our fellow
men; and among those fibres, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as
causes, and they come back to us as effects."
Hopi Saying
"Take the breath of the new dawn and make it part of you. It will give you
strength."
Horace
"Life is largely a matter of expectation."
Howard Thurman
At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.Dont
ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Hugh Leonard
"My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past."
Hunter S. Thompson
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop
taking it seriously.
Hypatia
"Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can
comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best
preparation for understanding those that lie beyond."
Ian Gardner
"The purpose of human life is the dissolution of the soul and the revelation
of the Spirit."
Iimani David
Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned
something new. The question is "what?
Indian Proverb
"Yoga: an ancient practice, a complete way of life. Breathe well. You will
live long on earth.""If you breathe well, you will live long on the earth."
Iris Murdoch
"One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Life is God's novel. Let him write it."
Isamu Noguchi
"Appreciate the moment."
Isira
"As life moves in cycles, every season comes to pass. One must rest in the
centre, accepting change, to remain balanced through all that turns. To
resist the turning nature of life results in suffering. Our Liberation from the
wheel of life is not in escaping it, but in understanding it."
Itzhak Perlman
"Trust your ability!"
J. Michael Straczynski
"Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for
anyone...the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing
the next person to find their own way."
J.K. Rowling
"What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it
did.
Jack Canfield
"Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort
zone.""Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything
you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.""Our job is
not to figure out the 'how'. The 'how' will show up out of the commitment
and believe in the 'what"
Jack Johnson
We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is
enough.
Jack Kerouac
"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer
ways to go. But no matter, the road is life."
Jackson Kiddard
"When you let go of everything you think you know and just trust, life has a
way of working itself out that's better than you could ever imagine."
James Allen
"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul,
the director of his life."
James Baldwin
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when
you came in.
James Cash Penney
"No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more
latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power."
James M. Barrie
"Life is a long lesson in humility.""Those who bring sunshine to the lives of
others cannot keep it from themselves."All the world is made of faith, and
trust, and pixie dust.
James Oppenheim
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under
his feet."
Jane Austen
We all have a better guide in ourselves, if we would see it, than any other
person can be."
Jane Fonda
It's never too late... never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
Jawaharlal Nehru
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents
determinism; the way you play it is free will."
Jean Anouilh
"Our entire life consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are."
Jean de la Fontaine
"One returns to the place one came from."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
Jeannette Walls
Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.
Jeb Dickerson
"Daily I learn - sometimes painfully, other times with glee - that mine is a
path never meant to be paved."
Jennie Jerome Churchill
"Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it, as it
is, is the only way of being happy."
Jennifer Egan
"Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didnt expect:
one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is
unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those
excluded from it are missing out.
Jenny Craig
"[Make a commitment:] It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do
day in and day out that makes the difference."
Jesus Christ
And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to the span of life?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or
any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn
about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not
how to escape from it.""It is very easy to conform to what your society or
your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing;
but that is not livingTo live is to find out for yourself what is true..."
Jillian Michaels
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!
Jo Coudert
"To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of
your life, you are the only solution."
Joan of Arc
"I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every
woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in
little or nothing yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all
we have and we live it as we believe in living it. And then it is gone. But to
sacrifice what you are and live without belief, that's more terrible than
dying."
Jodi Picoult
We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do
something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.
Joel Osteen
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to
determine how you're going to live your life."
Johann W. von Goethe
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"What does not kill me makes me stronger.""Whatever you can do or
dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in
it.""Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them
to become what they are capable of being."
John Burroughs
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the
walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want
to see."
John Keats
"Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts."
John Lennon
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
John Milton
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday
epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how
we experience life and the world.
John Muir
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow
into you as sunshine flows into trees."
John Ruskin
"There is no wealth but life."
John Steinbeck
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the
morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
John Wesley
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, In all the ways you
can, In every place you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you
can, As long as ever you can."
John Wooden
"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will
never be able to repay you."
Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
"Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which
you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to
attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not
take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to
a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to
give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the
adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of
a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from
our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy
than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new
and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your
inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life
that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become
accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible
beauty.
Jonathan Huie
"Life is a game with no rules. Life just happens to us regardless of our best
intentions. Our only path to happiness lies in being open to receiving
whatever life throws at us - with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of
life.""Life is a Book of Riddles, with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its
Margins."
Jonathan Ive
It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do,
and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful
to your gift and very confident in its value.
Jonathan Safran Foer
"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives
I'm not living."
Jonathan Swift
"May you live all the days of your life."
Jorge Luis Borges
"Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single
moment--the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he
is.""Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a
single moment--the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who
he is."
Joseph Campbell
"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they
are looking for the experience of being alive.""We must let go of the life we
have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."
Josh Billings
"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
Joy Page
"Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve
your greatest life then do not make it your master."
Judith McNaught
There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to
do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may
seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts
and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the
complications, and just go for it.
Judy Collins
"Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and
forgive each other."
Julia Ward Howe
"While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?"
June Ahern
How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to
appease others.
K.T. Jong
"It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we
can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands
knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts."
Kahlil Gibran
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
Kalu Kalu
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things
you do for others remain as your legacy.
Kalu Rinpoche
"As humans, we also suffer from not getting what we want and not keeping
what we have."
Karen Anderson
"Look to their positive intent, especially when they appear to have none."
Karen Horney
"Life itself still remains a very effective therapist."To find a mountain path
all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is
shown.
Karl Barth
"Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace."
Katharine Hepburn
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the
school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's
always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has
got to change.
Kelly Cutrone
In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and
privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to
know yourself.
Khaled Hosseini
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single
day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...
Kobi Yamada
"Every now and then, bite off more than you can chew."
Lao Tzu
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Do not resist. Let
them move foward in whatever way they like."
Lateef Warnick
"The greatest life one can have is of service. Give joy, happiness, bliss,
laughter, wisdom, prosperity, love & light to others. By doing so, you tap
into the Infinite Source within ensuring that you will never have to do
without these "treasures" yourself!"
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to
make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and
have courage when things go wrong.
Laura Kangas
"On the tightrope of life, only one thing allows us to move forward, and that
one thing is balance..."
Lauryn Hill
"We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it."
Leo Buscaglia
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a
listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of
which have the potential to turn a life around."
Leo Tolstoy
"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Life well spent is long."
Les Brown
"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you
where you want to go, no one else."
Lewis Carroll
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Lillie Langtry
"I do not regret one moment of my life."
Lisa Kleypas
... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but
not in the you expect.
Lisa Schroeder
Was it hard?" I ask. Letting go?... Not as hard as holding on to something
that wasn't real.
Lisa Unger
I think most people are just trying to be happy, and that most of their
actions, however misguided, are in line with that goal. Most people just
want to feel they belong somewhere, want to be loved, and want to feel
they're important to someone. If you really examine all the wrongheaded
and messed-up things they do, they can most often be traced back to that
basic desire. The abusers, the addicted, the cruel and unpleasant, the
manipulators --these are just people who started this quest for happiness in
the basement of their lives. Someone communicated to them through word
or deed that they were undeserving, so they think they have to claw their
way there over the backs of others, leaving scars and creating damage. Of
course, they only create more misery for themselves and others.
Logan Smith
"How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than 60
years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"
Louis L'Amour
"Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and
movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time
when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing
he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack
of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to
say, "This I am today; that I will be tomorrow."
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
"Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
Louise Erdrich
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone
won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to
love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here
to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens
that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let
yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in
heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you
could.
Mahatma Gandhi
"The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly."
Marcus Aurelius
"Your life is what your thoughts make it."
Margaret Cousins
"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it
into words is all that is necessary."
Margaret Mitchell
"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect."
Margaret Sanger
"As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for
the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a
mosaic in a preconceived design."
Marge Piercy
"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third."
Margery Cuyler
"I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day
and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night."
Mariah Carey
"You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength,
and say, "I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be
myself."
Marianne Williamson
"To be consciously aware [that love is the essential reality and our purpose
on earth], to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.
Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us."The spiritual path - is
simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most
people just don't know it."
Marilyn Monroe
"...life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
Mark Twain
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life
stands explained."
Markus Zusak
Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
Martha Graham
"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you
into action, and there is only one of you in all time."
Martial
"Life's not just about being alive, but being well."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment
which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words.
Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the
heart.""Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
matter."
Mary Lou Retton
"Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find
it and keep it lit."
Mary Oliver
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey
"Remember your dreams."
Matt Kahn
"I am the life just passing through. I'm what remains and so are you."
Matthew
"Judge not,lest you be judged.
Max de Pree
"We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to
exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may
both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy,
healing, and inclusion."
May Sarton
"Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us
back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of
grace."
Maya Angelou
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed
to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living
standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the
scale of responsibilityLife is not measured by the breaths we take, but by
the moments that take our breath away.
Maynard James Keenan
"For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I
am. I listen. I write. I live."
Meher Baba
"The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done
even whilst attending to our worldly duties..."
Melanie Moushigian
"I'm not in this world to live up to anyone else's standards or expectations
but my own. I am here to live, to love, to give, to grow, to serve, to explore
life, and explore my soul within. I am not here to be who society expects
me to be. My thoughts are my own and I am proud to live in the skin of my
very own authentic self. I am proud to be me."
Michael Josephson
"Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of
circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a life that matters."
Michael Rawls
"affirmation: I am in the right place, doing the right thing, achieving what I
have envisioned, and feeling fulfilled and complete."
Michael Vance
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breathtaking
moments."
Michaelangelo
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we
miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
Micheal Teal
"If you accept love as a way of life you will cultivate joy and and create a
nurturing environment of happiness and harmony."
Michel de Montaigne
"I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up
all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a
life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate."
Mitch Albom
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving
others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself
to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Mohandas Gandhi
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Morihei Ueshiba (Founder of Aikido)
"Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout."
MSI
"Life is meant to be lived in eternal bliss, infinite freedom, unconditional
love and unbounded awareness. Any other life is utterly missing the point
of being born a human."
Nancy Bishop
"What the world needs now is for each of us to be who we truly are, and to
bring our gifts into the world. Don't hold back any longer. Be Present, Be
You. That is enough. Really it is."
Nancy McKenzie
Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life
is a woman's gift; death is God's.
Neale Donald Walsch
"You cannot resist something to which you grant no reality. The act of
resisting a thing is the act of granting it life. When you resist an energy, you
place it there. The more you resist, the more you make it realwhatever it
is you are resisting.""Every human being is as special as every other
human being who has ever lived, lives now, or every will live. You are all
meesengers. Every one of you. You are carrying a message to life about
life every day. Every hour. Every moment."
Neil Gaiman
"You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.
Nelson Henderson
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not
expect to sit."
Nikola Tesla
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make
more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its
existence."
Norman Vincent Peale
"The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful
life is you."
Og Mandino
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead
by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you
can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be
the same again.""You are not the momentary whim of a careless creator
experimenting in the laboratory of life... You were made with a purpose."
Oliver Goldsmith
"Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long."
Oprah Winfrey
"If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at
what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough."
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you
ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing."
Orson Scott Card
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's
life is nothing."
Oscar Wilde
I love talking about nothing. Its the only thing I know anything
about.""One's only real life is the life one never leads."
Paramahansa Yogananda
Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future
will take care of itself......
Parker J. Palmer
"I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my
life -- about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I
enter into and how I conduct them."
Patrick Beine
"We are all heroes. We just need to choose to live in the way that makes it
evident to us and others."
Patrul Rinpoche
The best instruction is always to watch the mind.
Paul Tournier
"Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not
mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary it means accepting it
as it comes. . . . To accept is to say yes to life in its entirety."
Paula P. Brownlee
"To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what
gives meaning to your life."
Paulo Coelho
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search
of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
"The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden
immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories
of all people are connected, and we able to know everything, because it's
all written there."
Peter Shaffer
The trouble is if you dont spend your life yourself, other people spend it for
you.
Philip Green
"It's all about quality of life; finding a happy balance between work, friends
and family."
Philip James Bailey
We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures
on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks
most, feels noblest, acts the best.
Plato
"Life must be lived as play."
R. I. Fitzhenry
"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you
unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when
facing them."Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the
capacity to receive it.Life is perpetually creative because it contains in
itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate
time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the
varied forms of self-realization."The highest education is that which does
not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all
existence."
Rachel Naomi Remen
From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never
learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself."Life offers its
wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for
answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its
importat to live everything."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can
sincerely try to help another without helping himself."To laugh often and
much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of
children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."It is
not length of life, but the depth. All life is an experiment."
Ram Dass
"I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it
isn't, that's where my work lies.""Everything in your life is there as a vehicle
for your transformation. Use it!"
Ramesh S. Balsekar
"The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in
your attitude toward whatever life brings."
Randolph J. Rogers, The Key of Life; A Metaphysical Investigation
I have found that the only consolation is never regretting anything that you
do. Never look back, always look forward and continue moving along with a
confidence that everything youre doing and everything youve done is the
way its supposed to be.
Randy Pausch
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
Red Haircrow
I welcome questions. I hate assumptions.
Reinhold Niebuhr
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the
courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the
difference."
Remez Sasson
"When you have control over your thoughts, you have control over your
life""Fill your mind with light, happiness, hope, feelings of security and
strength, and soon your life will reflect these qualities."
Richard Bach
I think theres an invisible principle of living too. If we believe were guided
through every step of our lives, we are. Its a lovely sight, watching it
work."There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no
matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to
learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've
chosen to go."Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard J. Leider
"Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us -
our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act
on it for ourselves."
Rick Riordan
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
Rita Mae Brown
"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you
for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't
like you at all."
Robert Brault
"You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you realize that your life is the
miracle."
Robert Byrne
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
Robert Fulghum
"Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and
draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some."
Robert Louis Stevenson
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.""We
must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without
which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full
stature."
Robertson Davies
I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek
notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.
Robin Morgan
"Listen life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it?
Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think,
How funny, this is what being alive is."
Robin S. Sharma
Give out what you most want to come back.
Rollo May
"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy
and mutual valuing."
Romain Rolland
"A hero is a man who does what he can."
Ron Smotherman
"Acceptance is observation of life and suspension of judgment about
whether what is happening is good or bad, right or wrong."
Rudyard Kipling
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble
Rumi
"Gods purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding
heart."God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually
you will return to him.""The rewards of life and devotion to God are love
and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God."
S. Nirmal
Life is beautiful, terms and conditions applied
Saint Vincent de Paul
"Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light
at all times and under all circumstances."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The happiness of life...is made up of minute factions- the little, soon-
forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment."
Santosh Kalwar
"We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot
change our thinking."
Sara Teasdale
"Life is but thought. When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very
coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my
youth."
Sarah Bernhardt
"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that we
become rich."
Satchel Paige
"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and
dance like no one is watching."
Scott Adams
"You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the
most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things
they've taught me."
Scout Cloud Lee
When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act
of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived
consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the
creation of a better world.
Seneca
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the
right."True happiness is ... to enjoy the present""It is not because things
are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult."
Shakti Gawain
"When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by
falling into place easily, often miraculously."
Sharon Salzberg
"We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest
happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from
letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at
home."
Shinichi Suzuki
"What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue,
and beauty."
Sholom Aleichem
"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a
tragedy for the poor."
Sidney Lanier
"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself."
Sigmund Freud
"I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily."
Sioux Saying
"Life is like a buffalo. Its there and then its gone. Life comes and goes like
the cloud of a moist breath on a cloudy morning."
Socrates
"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.""It is not living that matters,
but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living."
Sonia Choquette
"The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience."
Sren Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Sri Chinmoy
"Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by
entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love.""To be true to
oneself is the hardest test of life."
Sri Ramakrishna
"Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life."
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
"Make the mind, the voice and the actions agree in harmony. That is the
right way of life."
St Teresa of Lisieux
"I will spend my heaven doing good on earth."
St. Catherine of Siena
"If you are what you should be, then you will set the world on fire."
Stephanie Dowrick
Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves."
Stephen Chbosky
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.
Stephenie Meyer
"When you can live forever what do you live for?
Steve Chandler
Not being excited is to have missed the whole point of life.
Steve Jobs
"Your time is limited, dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont be
trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other peoples thinking. Dont
let the noise of others opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most
important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they
somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is
secondary."
Steve Marboli
Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes
the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it,
but what you become for it."
Stuart Connelly
Life can only be understood backwards, but it has to be lived forwards.
Susan Polis Schultz
"This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it
well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take
the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to
control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to
make your life happy."
Suzanne Weyn
Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.
Swami Chidananda
"You know why you are doing something. And if it is against your life, your
principles and ideals it is bothersome. And no one wants to be bothered.
So you conveniently try to curtain it off, turn a blind eye, and put it out of
sight so that it won't bother you. This is what the Mind does."
Swami Chinmayananda
"Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not.
This is intelligent living."
Swami Giten
"Life is our teacher. Life communicates with us all the time and it is a lesson
to see how life continuously have led me to the people I need to met, to the
situations I need to experience, and to the places I need to be."
Swami Satyananda Saraswati
"Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable
inheritance in the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture
of tomorrow."
Sydney J. Harris
"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing
that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their
feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself,
you can't be comfortable with others."
T. S. Eliot
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has
never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T.K.V. Desikachar
"The way that we see things today does not have to be the way we saw
them yesterday. This is because the situations, our relationships to them,
ad we ourselves have changed in the interim."
Tennessee Williams
"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so
quickly you hardly catch it going."
Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama)
"I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness."
Tenzin Wangyal
"Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative
conditions, not simply to improve them.."
Terry Pratchett
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is
true, it's called Life.
The Bhagavad Gita
It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of
somebody else's life with perfection.
Theodore Roosevelt
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future
is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present
moment, we cannot be in touch with life."
Thomas Angelo
You know, I think it's important to keep a balance in things. Yeah, balance,
that's the right word. Cause the guy who wants too much risks losing
absolutely everything. Of course, the one who wants too little from life,
might not get anything at all.
Thomas F. Shubnell
You will never be who you want to be, until you are happy with who you
are.
Thomas Fuller
"Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all the
virtues."
Thomas Moore
"In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life."
Thornton Wilder
"We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre
strengthens our faculty to face it."We can only be said to be alive in those
moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Toba Beta
If you find yourself easily provoked, then just change the channel.
Tom Clancy
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Head
"Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to
give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into
instruments of love and hope."
Victor Hugo
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by
the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Viktor Frankl
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by
answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being
responsible.
Virginia Satir
"Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you deal
with it is what makes the difference."We must not allow other people's
limited perceptions to define us."
Virginia Woolf
Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from
the beginning of consciousness to the end."You cannot find peace by
avoiding life.
Voltaire
"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living
well."Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Walt Disney
"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough
to know that life is a complex matter."
Walter Bagehot
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
Walter Russell
"The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the
abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self."
Wayne W. Dyer
"Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose.
Anything less is a form of slavery."
Wendell Berry
"I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with
forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am
free."
Werner Erhart
"Living is not the story of your life. Living is the process of experiencing
right now."
William Feather
"Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in
special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom
I have no claim."
William Gibson
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk
management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern
recognition.
William James
"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.""This
life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.""Believe that life
is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
William Lyon Phelps
"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century."
William Shakespeare
"The readiness is all."
William W. Purkey
You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be
hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.
William Wordsworth
"The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered
acts of kindness and love."
Willie Davis
"If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a
cockroach."
Winifred Holtby
"The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding."
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"Life is a rainbow which also includes black."
Ziggy Marley
"No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the
best we can now."
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