 Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life. - Buddha We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are. - Talmud Art is not living. It is the use of living. - Audre Lorde You cannot find peace by avoiding life. - Virginia Woolf Of course there is not formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. - Arthur Rubinstein He who breathes deepest lives most. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin 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. - Parker J. Palmer Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. - Audre Lorde No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. - Barbara de Angelis Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. - Henry David Thoreau I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be "happy." I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. - Leo C. Rosten 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. - Barbara de Angelis |
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.
- Audre Lorde
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
- Audre Lorde
To change one's life:
1. Start immediately.
2. Do it flamboyantly.
3. No exceptions.
- William James
For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school.
- Oprah Winfrey
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have some power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
- Louisa May Alcott
To think and to be fully alive are the same.
- Hannah Arendt
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
- Rita Mae Brown
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.
- Brian Tracy
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau
I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
- Harrison Ford
It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.
- Judy Collins
The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.
- Bo Lozoff
This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
- George Bernard Shaw
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
- Sophocles
Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
- Judy Collins
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
- Vincent van Gogh
Grace means more than gifts. In grace something is transcended, once and for all overcome. Grace happens in spite of something; it happens in spite of separateness and alienation. Grace means that life is once again united with life, self is reconciled with self. Grace means accepting the abandoned one. Grace transforms fate into a meaningful vocation. It transforms guilt to trust and courage. The word grace has something triumphant in it.
- Yrjo Kallinen
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
- Sydney J. Harris
A life lived in love will never be dull.
- Leo Buscaglia
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after -- lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.
- Louise Erdrich
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
- Vincent van Gogh
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
- Madame de Stael
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.
- Tom Head
I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Live every act fully, as if it were your last.
- Buddha
Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
