See into life.
Don't just look at it.
-Anne Baxter
If one wants to know life,
one can best know it by one's own life.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass
and loses itself in the sunset.
-Crowfoot
The physical body is like a dewdrop on the grass,
a lifetime is like a lightning flash;
all of a sudden they are void, in an instant they are gone.
-Dogen
Life is beautiful in its simplicity.
-Thomas Matthiessen
Life is marvellous.
I want to be deeply rooted in it -
to live - to expand - to breathe in it -
to rejoice - to share it.
-Katherine Mansfield
Life is not anything
but an opportunity for something.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life just gives you time and space -
it is up to you to fill it.
-Anonymous
Life is what you make it,
always has been,
always will be.
-Anna Maria Robertson Moses, "Grandma Moses"
There is nothing at all in life except what we put there. -Anne Swetchine
Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out. -William Christopher Handy
The great use of life
is to spend it for something
that will outlast it.
-William James
Life is a field
and you are born to cultivate it.
-Kabir
Life is bristling with thorns,
and I know no other remedy
than to cultivate one's garden.
-Voltaire
Life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms. -Rabindranath Tagore
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -George Bernard Shaw
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
-Charles M. Schulz
All life is an experiment. The more experiments the better. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a series of surprises.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. -William Feather
Life is pure adventure and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art. -Maya Angelou
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw
all the paint on it you can.
-Danny Kaye
Life is a celebration of passionate colors.
-Leiahola Cator
Life is a great bundle of little things.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Life is exquisitely a time-thing, like music. -Ernest Everett Just
Life is merely a bridge. Do not build a house upon it. -Chinese Proverb
Life, however long,
will always be short.
-Wislawa Szymborska
Life is too short
for a long story.
-Mary Wortley Montagu
I love a broad margin to my life.
-Henry David Thoreau
Life is trying things to see if they work.
-Ray Bradbury
It takes half your life before you discover
that life is a do-it-yourself project.
-Napoleon Hill
Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
-Arthur Powell Davies
I count life
just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
-Robert Browning
Life is a maze
in which we take the wrong turn
before we have learned to walk.
-Cyril Connolly
Life is always at some turning point.
-Irwin Edman
Life is a succession of readjustments.
-Elizabeth Bowen
Life is like music,
it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
-Samuel Butler
Life is not a problem to be solved
but a reality to be experienced.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though it is hard to realize this.
-Henry Ford
Life is like on onion.
You peel off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
-Carl Sandburg
I take a simple view of life:
keep your eyes open
and get on with it.
-Laurence Olivier
Life - all life -
is movement and energy.
-Sivananda Radha
Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. -Leo Buscaglia
Life is a series of moments.
To live each one is to succeed.
-Corita Kent
Life isn't a matter of milestones
but of moments.
-Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples
widening out from an original center.
-Seamus Heaney
Life is a wave,
in which no two consecutive moments of its existence
is composed of the same particles.
-John Tyndall
Life is a lively process of becoming.
-Douglas MacArthur
Life has its own hidden forces
which you can only discover by living.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with outstanding accuracy. -Florence Scovel Shinn
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand that is dealt you
represents determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
-Jawahar Nehru
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards,
but sometimes playing a poor hand well.
-Jack London
Life is the sum of all your choices.
-Albert Camus
Life is but thought.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Life does not consist mainly
- or even largely - of facts and happenings.
It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever blowing through ones' head.
-Mark Twain
What is life if not what we think about all day?
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember this,
that very little is needed
to make a happy life;
it is all within yourself,
in your way of thinking.
-Marcus Aurelius
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
-Arthur Rubinstein
Life is short,
and it's up to you to make it sweet.
-Sadie Delany
Life will give you what you ask of her
if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.
-E. Nesbit
The best things is life are the nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. -Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is like a landscape.
You live in the midst of it
but can describe it
only from the vantage point of distance.
-Charles Lindbergh
One life -
a little gleam of Time
between two eternities.
-Thomas Carlyle
Life, like a dome of many-colored glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged;
life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope
surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
-Virginia Woolf
Life is sacred.
Life is art.
Life is sacred art.
-Gabrielle Roth
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope -
a slight change, and all patterns alter.
-Sharon Saltzberg
All life is but a colorful reflection. -Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe
The best way to know life
is to love many things.
-Vincent Van Gogh
Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.
-William Cowper
There never was yet an uninteresting life.
Such a thing is an impossibility.
Inside the dullest exterior
there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy.
-Mark Twain
Life consists of propositions about life.
-Wallace Stevens
Perhaps life is just that -
a dream and a fear.
-Joseph Conrad
Life is a foreign language;
all men mispronounce it.
-Christopher Morley
Life is the art of drawing
without an eraser.
-John W. Gardner
If life had a second edition,
how I would correct the proofs.
-John Clare
We learn about life
not from plusses alone,
but from minuses as well.
-Anton Chekhov
Life isn't long enough for love and art. -W. Somerset Maugham
The life so short,
the craft so long to learn.
-Geoffrey Chaucer
Life is half spent
before we know what it is.
-George Herbert
Life is a sacred text,
to be unlocked through the key
of metaphoric knowing.
-Ray Grasse
I think of life as a good book.
The further you get into it,
the more it begins to make sense.
-Harold S. Kushner
Life is a wave,
in which no two consecutive moments of its existence
is composed of the same particles.
-John Tyndall
Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? -every, every moment? -Thornton Wilder
To live life is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. -Emily Dickinson
Life is a play;
it's not the length
but its performance that counts.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life is a play.
What matters is not that it lasts a long time
but that it be well-acted.
-Alejandro Jodorowsky
Life is not a matter of extent,
but of content.
-Stephen Samuel Wise
It is not length of life
but depth of life.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, if you know how to live it,
is long enough.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life is too deep for words,
so don't try to describe it,
just live it.
-C. S. Lewis
Life is of the soul,
and of nothing else.
-Ken Wilber
All life is the play of the soul
with the possibilities of nature.
-Aurobindo Ghose
Life is made up of marble and mud.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
Be what it may,
life is a splendid thing.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life at its best
is a creative synthesis of opposites
in a fruitful harmony.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
Life is a hyphen
between matter and spirit.
-Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
Life is the spirit
incarnate in time.
-R. Buckminster Fuller
Life is an ecstasy.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a pure flame,
and we live by an invisible Sun within us.
-Thomas Browne
Our lives are like
a candle in the wind.
-Carl Sandburg
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch I've got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible. -George Bernard Shaw
And life is colour and warmth and light,
And a striving evermore for these.
-Julian Grenfell
All life is only a lavish and manifold opportunity given to us to discover, realize, express the Divine. -The Mother
Life has to be lived;
why not live it in the highest way?
-Yogananda
Your life is an occasion.
Rise to it.
-Suzanne Weyn
Life is ours to be spent,
not to be saved.
-D. H. Lawrence
It's time to start living
the life you've imagined.
-Henry James
May you live all the days of your life.
-Jonathan Swift
How good is life,
the mere living!
-Robert Browning
Life is a jest,
and all things show it,
I thought so once
and now I know it.
-John Gay
Life is a flower
for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
Life is a flow of love,
only your participation is requested.
-Yogi Bhajan
Life is love and the activity of love.
-Joshu Sasaki Roshi
What is life
without the radiance of love?
-Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Life, I repeat, is the energy of love,
Divine or human.
-William Wordsworth
There is just one life for each of us:
our own.
-Euripedes
Be glad of your life
because it gives you a chance
to love, to work, to play,
and to look up at the stars.
-Henry Van Dyke
The longer I live,
the more beautiful life becomes.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
What a wonderful life I've had!
I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
-Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Life is like a field of newly fallen snow.
Where I choose to walk, every step will show.
-Denis Waitley
Tell me,
what is it
you plan to do
with your
one wild and precious life?
-Mary Oliver
