Be life-oriented -- not book-oriented, not quotation-oriented nor campaign-oriented. --Shibendu Lahiri (in Untitled)

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die -- whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness. -Gilda Radner --Gilda Radner (in Untitled)

If life serves you a lemon, make lemonade. --Author Unknown (heard at SF airport) (in Untitled)

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. --Chief Seattle (in Untitled)

Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase: REVERENCE FOR LIFE. --Albert Schweitzer (in Untitled)

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. --Rose Kennedy (in Untitled)

People say that what we're seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. --Joseph Campbell (in Untitled)

If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. --Joseph Campbell (in Untitled)

I can let my life pass me by Or I can get down and try Work it all out this lifetime Work it all out this time. --Maxwell (in Untitled)

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. --Richard Bach (in Lungs of a Smoker)

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. --Albert Einstein (in Untitled)

"While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die -- whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness." --Gilda Radner (in Untitled)

The millions are awake enough for physical labor. But only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertions, only one in a hundred million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face. --Henry David Thoreau (in Untitled)

This moment is the only one that truly exists. There are no dress rehearsals in life. --Richard Carlson (in Untitled)

With all the will in the world, Diving for dear life, When we could be diving for pearls. --Elvis Costello (in Untitled)

The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the skylife nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness that underlies the whole of life and death. --Sogyal Rinpoche (in Untitled)

All things are connected like the blood that unites us. We did not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. --Chief Seattle (in Untitled)

"Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation." --Robert Assaglioli (in Untitled)

Those things of real worth in life are worth going to any length in love and respect to safeguard. --Julia Butterfly Hill (in What Is Your Tree?)

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." --Henry David Thoreau (in Untitled)

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. --T.S. Eliot (in Untitled)

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. --Robert Louis Stevenson (in Untitled)

What I am doing today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. --Unknown (in Untitled)

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. --Chief Seattle (in Untitled)

Our life is what our thoughts make it. --Marcus Aurelius Antonius (in Untitled)

Life has a practice of living you, if you don’t live it. --Philip Larkin (in Untitled)

Sound when stretched is music. Movement when stretched is dance. Mind when stretched is meditation. Life when stretched is celebration. --Ravishankar (in Untitled)

The sculptor, Michelangelo, was once asked how it was that he could create such beautiful works. "It's very simple," he answered. "When I look at a block of marble, I see the sculpture inside it. All I have to do is remove what doesn't belong." The master says: "There is a work of art each of us was destined to create. That is the central point of our life, and -- no matter how we try to deceive ourselves -- we know how important it is to our happiness. Usually, that work of art is covered by years of fears, guilt and indecision. But, if we decide to remove those things that do not belong, if we have no doubt as to our capability, we are capable of going forward with the mission that is our destiny. That is the only way to live with honor." --Paulo Coelho (in Untitled)

Dwelling on past mistakes is a waste of time. If the Ego needs to rectify a misdeed, have it do something that creates good in the present, this will certainly spawn good will for the future and create balance in your life. --Beth Johnson (in Untitled)

No change means death, for life is ever-changing. One should continue to evolve with the growing process. --From the Heart sutra (in Untitled)

Solve the problems that life sets before you, and you will find that solving them contributes to your inner growth. --Peace Pilgrim (in Untitled)

The ego is constantly in search of being a boss - whatsoever the cost. You are losing your whole opportunity of life just to fulfill a shadowy, non-substantial notion - the notion of ego: "I am somebody." Nobody is nobody. We are all one; we are not separate. --Osho (in Untitled)

In Tibetan, the word for body is 'lu', which means 'something you leave behind,' like baggage. Each time we say 'lu', it reminds us that we are only travellers, taking temporary refuge in this life and this body. --Sogyal Rinpoche (in Untitled)

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. --Shakespeare (in From Maid to a Bestselling Author)

All my life I said I wanted to be somebody ... I can see now that I should have been more specific. --Author Unknown (in Untitled)

Once the call of the True Self is heard not only with the heart but also with the mind and conscience there will be no way back to the way things have been. Sooner or later we will recognize that we no longer have any choice but to allow ourselves the extraordinary freedom to go all the way in this life. Because after all ... what else is there to do? --Andrew Cohen (in Untitled)

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way you will command the attention of the world. --George Washington Carver (in Untitled)

The quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor. --Vince Lombardi (in Untitled)

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 ... I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain. --Oriah Mountain Dreamer (opening of 'The Invitation') (in Untitled)

A man's life is short. Make yours a worthy one. --Lame Deer, Sioux medicine man (in Untitled)

Sound when stretched is music. Movement when stretched is dance. Mind when stretched is meditation. Life when stretched is celebration. --Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (in Untitled)

Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. --George Bernard Shaw (in Untitled)

In the strictest sense, we cannot actually think about life and reality at all, because this would have to include thinking about thinking, thinking about thinking about thinking, and so *ad infinitum*. One can only attempt a rational, descriptive philosophy of the universe on the assumption that one is totally separate from it. But if you and your thoughts are part of this universe, you cannot stand outside them to describe them. This is why all philosophical and theological systems must ultimately fall apart. To 'know' reality you cannot stand outside and define it; you must enter into it, be it, and feel it. --Alan Watts (in Untitled)

Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars...or your two legs..or your hands...or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them. --Dale Carnegie (in Untitled)

How mean am I, When life gives me gold, And I give you silver, And yet, I deem myself generous. --Kahlil Gibran (in Untitled)

The source of the life force is eternal -the center within- we do not need to collect it, like material things for it is already and always here. --Unknown (in Untitled)

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. --Helen Hayes (in Untitled)

There is more to life than increasing its speed. --Gandhi (in Untitled)

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. --Unknown (in Untitled)

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. --Muhammad Ali (in Wasted Years)