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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Life Quotes #2

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Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Life loves the liver of it.
Life must be lived as play.
Life well spent is long.
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
May you live all the days of your life.
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Only a few things are really important.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
There is no wealth but life.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
What we play is life.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
While there's life, there's hope.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Your life is what your thoughts make it.

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