Life
LIFE:
Life is not a jouirney to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to ski in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a Ride!”
LIFE:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
LIFE:
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
LIFE:
Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.
LIFE:
Falling down is part of life; getting back up is living.
LIFE:
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
LIFE:
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
LIFE:
Adulthood is overrated; maturity is underrated.
LIFE:
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
LIFE:
We wanderers begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.
LIFE:
Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
LIFE:
Life is the sum of all your choices.
LIFE:
The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it.
LIFE:
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
LIFE:
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
LIFE:
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
LIFE:
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
LIFE:
We can’t always choose the music life plays for us, but we can choose how we dance to it.
LIFE:
The trouble with life is you're halfway through before you realize it's a do-it-yourself project
LIFE:
We are all part of the Ocean of Consciousness - in its beauty, vibrancy, majesty, power, expansiveness, and serenity. Each of us may be seen as a wave and never alone.
LIFE:
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
LIFE:
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
LIFE:
Life is to be lived forward, but understood backward.
LIFE:
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
LIFE:
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
LIFE:
We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?
LIFE:
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
LIFE:
An unexamined life is not worth living.
LIFE:
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
LIFE:
All philosophy in two words - sustain and abstain.
LIFE:
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
LIFE:
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
LIFE:
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
LIFE:
Life is to be lived forward but understood backward.
LIFE:
God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.
LIFE:
I am who I am because of the bridges I have crossed.
LIFE:
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
LIFE:
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
LIFE:
The secret of living well and longer is eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure.
LIFE:
The secret of living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure.
LIFE:
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism. The way you play it is free will.
LIFE:
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
LIFE:
The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
LIFE:
In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.
LIFE:
Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.
LIFE:
Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
LIFE:
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.
LIFE:
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
LIFE:
People are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit and seldom draw to their full extent.
LIFE:
The unexamined life is not worth living.
LIFE:
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.