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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.  Life has no other
discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly.
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny,
denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.  What seems nasty, painful,
evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.
Every moment is a golden one for those who have the vision to recognize it as such.

Henry Miller

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have
perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe
that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Marie Curie

Living our life means that we take our life day to day and moment to moment,
always trying to deepen our understanding of what it means to be human.  Life will
never be perfect, and we will always be in a state of moving towards completeness.
Don, 84, put it this way:  "You have lived the life you have lived.  When we accept
the life we have lived, then we can begin to be whole."  He echoed an often-heard
theme:  When we judge our life we diminish ourselves.  The more we can
eliminate all need to compare, compete, grade, and judge our lives,
the closer we get to wisdom.

John Izzo

You have to count on living every single day in a way
you believe will make you feel good about your life--
so that even if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

Jane Seymour

What is life?  It is a flash of a firefly in the night.  It is a breath
of a buffalo in the wintertime.  It is as the little shadow
that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Chief Isapwo Muksika Crowfoot

In months of sun so live that in months of rain you will still be happy.

unattributed

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that
natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that
at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

Albert Einstein

Why do we protect children from life?  It's no wonder that we become afraid to live.
We're not told what life really is. We're not told that life is joy and wonder and magic
and even rapture, if you can get involved enough.  We're not told that life is also pain,
misery, despair, unhappiness, and tears.  I don't know about you, but I don't want
to miss any of it.  I want to embrace life, and I want to find out what it's all about.
I wouldn't want to go through life without knowing what it is to cry.

Leo Buscaglia

Frederick Buechner

Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other
than saving your life and being saved.  Perhaps we need to discard the idea
of longevity and cease loving this life, instead committing these things to God and,
believing that no one ever escapes destiny, to consider, with that in mind,
how we may live the best possible life in the time that remains.

Marcus Aurelius

We must be willing to get rid of
the life we've planned, so as to have
the life that is waiting for us.

The old skin has to be shed
before the new one can come.

Joseph Campbell

Alan Cohen

Life is a great school for the development of character,
and all, through strife and struggle, vice and virtue, success and failure,
we are slowly but surely learning the lessons of wisdom.

James Allen

The aim of life is to be fully born,
though its tragedy is that most of us
die before we are thus born.

Erich Fromm

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Accept every event in your life as natural, whether it is life, death,
birth, marriage, goings or comings.  Accept everyone.  Do not argue.
Do not question.  Do not doubt.  Do not judge.  You will find that
each step will lead on to another one, and when you start living this
way there will be great rejoicing in the heavens because
a prodigal son or daughter is beginning to return home.

Ronald Beesley

Learn this great secret of life:  What people call interruption or disturbance
to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine.  To split life into
two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption,
is to be caught between them.

Vernon Howard

How easily we can forget how precious life is!  So long as we can remember,
we've just been here, being alive.  Unlike other things for which we have
a good comparison--black to white, day to night, good to bad--we are
so immersed in life that we can see it only in the context of itself.
We don't see life as compared to anything, to not-being, for example,
to never having been born.  Life just is.  But life itself is a gift.  It's a
compliment just being born:  to feel, breathe, think, play, dance, sing,
work, make love, for this particular lifetime.  Today, let's give thanks for life.
For life itself.  For simply being born!

Daphne Rose Kingma

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good
about your life--so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

Jane Seymour

Remember, life is for living and learning.  So listen to your life and the
lessons it offers.  What choices must you make this day to help you move
forward?  Make your list of the things you can do right now to create what
you want and begin to do the work.  You can say yes to happiness, wholeness,
and prosperity.  You can live fully and creatively.  You can
claim your power to choose.  Why not claim it now?

Susan L. Taylor

I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity;
and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had
so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die.
All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly
labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw
in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.

Lev Tolstoy

There is no use in one person attempting to tell another what the meaning of life is.
It involves too intimate an awareness.  A major part of the meaning of life is
contained in the very discovering of it.  It is an ongoing experience of growth
that involves a deepening contact with reality.  To speak as though it were an
objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point
altogether.  The meaning of life is indeed objective when it is reached, but the
way to it is by a path of subjectivities. . . . The meaning of life
cannot be told; it has to happen to a person.

Ira Progoff