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)

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)

Every day it is all new, all fresh. I start again from scratch, leaving behind what happened yesterday. Every day life tests my meditation, my awareness, in one way or another ... and the tests are very simple ... they hide in the things I do every day, in the people I meet every day. --A. Bee (in Untitled)

Simplicity is central to engaging the aliveness of the universe, because it helps to clear away the distractions that separate us from direct connection with life. --Duane Elgin (in Untitled)

Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? --Mary Oliver (in What If You Had 37 Days ...)

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. --Arundhati Roy (in Untitled)

It's only when there is complete surrender to the now, to what is, that liberation is possible. I do not believe that a practice will take you into complete surrender. Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. --Eckhart Tolle (in Untitled)

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. --Eckhart Tolle (in Untitled)

A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do. --Osho (in Untitled)

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright. I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more. I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive. I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger. I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting. I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess. I wish enough "Hello's" to get you through the final "Good-bye." --Author Unknown (in Untitled)

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. --From 'American Beauty' (in Untitled)

My whole purpose in life is to be of service to mankind. This I can do only by offering inspiration on the strength of my oneness. --Sri Chinmoy (in Untitled)

Is it possible to cease functioning from the known? If one cannot cast off the known completely, then one’s life will simply be a manifestation of what the mind thinks it knows. True freedom comes when every speck of the known collapses into the unknown, not just for a moment, but continually. --Adyashanti (in The Unknown)

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. --Sir Thomas Browne (in Untitled)

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these. --Lloyd Shearer (in Untitled)

In the final analysis, the rich must not ignore the poor because both rich and poor are tied in a single garment of destiny. All life is interrelated, and all men are interdependent. --Martin Luther King Jr. (in Micro-Loan Revolution)

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows. --Nisargadatta Maharaj (in Untitled)

Each day of human life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each movement is etched with nature’s grand design~ do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things. --Morehei Ueshiba (founder of Aikido) (in Untitled)

He who binds himself to a joy Doth the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in Eternity’s sun rise. --William Blake (in Untitled)

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. --Meister Eckhart (in Anonymous Giving)

The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts. --Alan Cohen (in Untitled)