When we see everything in life as a game, we will be equally joyous when falling as we are when rising. If we can fully understand this – if we can see life as swinging on a swing – we will never fall apart when failure comes our way.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
-Helen Keller
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life.
-Natalie Babbitt
"Tuck Everlasting"
You ask: What is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: Do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
-Freeman Dyson
"The Meaning of Life"
You say: “He lost his life” or “my life”, as if life were something that you can possess or lose. The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-E. M. Forster
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-Carl Gustav Jung
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.
-Sylvia Plath
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
