If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.

~ Albert Schweitzer

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

~ Matthew Arnold

Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.

~ William Gaddis

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

~ Mohandas K. Gandhi

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to be useful,

to have it make a difference that you lived at all.

~ Leo Rosten

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

~ Henry Ford

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

~ Latin proverb

What a wonderful life I've had.

I only wish I'd realized it earlier.

~ Collette

The circumstances of others seem good to us,

while ours seem good to others.

~ Publius Syrus

When we are not sure, we are alive.

~ Graham Greene

He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.

In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life:

It goes on.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

If you don't have a sense of humor ~ it's not funny

~ Wavy Gravy

No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change,

and to preserve change amid order.

Security is mostly a superstition.

It does not exist in nature,

nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

The fates lead him who will-

Him who won't they drag.

What we are really looking for is not the meaning of life but an experience of being alive.

And only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience,

painful or joyous; to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

~ Henrik Ibsen

The face of a man gives us fuller and more interesting information than his tongue,

for his face is the summary of all he will ever say.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

~ Plato

The overexamined life is a drag

~ grafitti

There is only one time when it is essential to awaken.

That time is now.

~ Buddha

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the "still small voice" within me.

The most repressed and denied aspects of our soul...

[are] often the treasure that lies buried in he darkness.

Those things that Nature denied to human sight,

she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

~ Ovid, Metamorphosis

To live content with small means;

to seek elegance rather than luxury,

and refinement rather than fashion;

to be worthy, not respectable,

and wealthy, not rich;

to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages

with open heart;

to study hard;

to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently,

await occasions, hurry never;

in a word, to let the spiritual,

unbidden and unconscious,

grow up through the common-

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters,

compared to what lies within us.