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)

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin. --Grace Hansen (in Friends Until the End)

When our fears have been serialized, our creativity censured, our ideas "marketplaced," our rights sold, our intelligence sloganized, our strength downsized, our privacy auctioned; when the theatricality, the entertainment value, the marketing of life is complete, we will find ourselves living not in a nation but in a consortium of industries, and wholly unintelligible to ourselves except for what we see as through a screen darkly. --Toni Morrison (in Untitled)

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. --Bumper Sticker :) (in Untitled)

It happened just because you feel that little tap on your heart to stop and do something. I think about all the other times in my life I felt that tap, and I kept walking past it. --Debi Farris (in Untitled)

What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries - these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of time, not time itself. Time is the life of the soul. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (in Untitled)

It's amazing, addictive. The first view of the Earth is magical. It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me. I could not get over the notion that in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred. You get the feeling that I need to work extraordinarily hard along with other human beings to respect that. --Kalpana Chawla (in Untitled)

Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living. --Etty Hillesum (in Untitled)

An elderly Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life... He said to them, "A fight is going on inside me, it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One wolf is evil---he is fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, competition, superiority, and ego. The other is good -- he is joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith. This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too." They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed." --Author Unknown (in Untitled)

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. --D. H. Lawrence (in Untitled)

As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has—or ever will have—something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression. --Mister Rogers (in Untitled)

People worry too much. Life is good, just the way it is. --George Dawson, age 102 (in Untitled)

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice. --Meister Eckhart (in Untitled)

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. --Unknown (in Untitled)

I walk until given shelter, fast until given food. I don't ask - it's given without asking. Aren't people good! There is a spark of good in everybody, no matter how deeply it may be buried, it is there. It's waiting to govern your life gloriously. --Peace Pilgrim (in Untitled)

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world, but leads us deeper into it. --Henri J.M. Nouwen (in Untitled)

To know that you are the timeless reality is all I care to see, and this is our only meeting place. Our journey is to awaken the greatest capacity, to ignite an understanding that combines life's highest ideals with pure practicality. My work is to support and fortify a deepening of spirit, to enhance a sense of trust in one's own authority, love, acceptance, and ultimately enlightenement. This work is ever changing, you are the one that defines it. It is you that call yourself and answer yourself in me. You may wonder why you don't answer yourself directly; the answer is the same: you do. We are one. --Shantimayi (in Untitled)

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation. Underneath your outer form, you are connected with something so vast, soi mmeasurable and sacred, that it cannot be spoken of -- yet you can know it for yourself. --Eckhart Tolle (in Untitled)

Choose a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life. --Confucius (in Untitled)

"Why not" is a slogan for an interesting life. --Mason Cooley (in Untitled)

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the whole world will live as one. --John Lennon (in Untitled)