Miraculous Mind....

MIND...!!!!!!!!!!!

Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes,

And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes

The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,

Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills: —

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:

Environment is but his looking-glass.

JAMES ALLEN, As a Man Thinketh

 God's most wonderous organ..Which can do anything and can imagine anything...

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.

and like the toy clay you can mould it and give any shape it in anything..Mostly we try to creat our desires and feelings with great care and enthusiusm..Next moment we just dismentle it cozwe find the minute error or sometimes its not the shape we want.Its totaly depends on what is going on in your mind what you feel..and which emotion is taking over you.

There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon

Next time when that emotion is passed you take a look of your creation you realize the thousand words which could not spell out..being aware of yourself you dismentle it coz you don't want to show it to anybody and try to improve it to something more beautiful something more appelling..something More YOU..
The wonder is not in your hands..its in mind..Beautiful mind sees only beauty

Our mind is but a lump of clay that Fate, grim potter, holds on sorrow's wheel that rolls away,And, as he pleases, moulds.Handle this explosive carefully. Coz mind grow by what it is feed on....The mind commands the body and immediately it obeys. The mind orders itself, and meets resistance..So handle with care




            
Thats why it is said , "mind of a child is like clay and education is that person who mould them into a beautiful piece called intelligent mind "

It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or to travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Well, there *used* to be a trail here somewhere.....

Perhaps the genius of ultrarunning is its supreme lack of utility. It makes
 no sense in a world of space ships and supercomputers to run vast distances
 on foot. There is no money in it and no fame, frequently not even the
 approval of peers. But as poets, apostles and philosophers have insisted
 from the dawn of time, there is more to life than logic and common sense.
 The ultra runners know this instinctively. And they know something else that
 is lost on the sedentary. They understand, perhaps better than anyone, that
 the doors to the spirit will swing open with physical effort. In running
 such long and taxing distances they answer a call from the deepest realms of
 their being -- a call that asks who they are ..."
- David Blaikie


"Well, there *used* to be a trail here somewhere ... "

- Kent Street

Theodore Roosevelt, Sorbonne...

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong

man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The

credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred

by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes

short again and again, because there is no effort without error and

shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the

great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy

cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and

who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that

his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither

victory nor defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt, Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

Perhaps ....

Perhaps the genius of ultrarunning is its supreme lack of utility. It makes

no sense in a world of space ships and supercomputers to run vast distances

on foot. There is no money in it and no fame, frequently not even the

approval of peers. But as poets, apostles and philosophers have insisted

from the dawn of time, there is more to life than logic and common sense.

The ultra runners know this instinctively. And they know something else that

is lost on the sedentary. They understand, perhaps better than anyone, that

the doors to the spirit will swing open with physical effort. In running

such long and taxing distances they answer a call from the deepest realms of

their being -- a call that asks who they are ..."

- David Blaikie

God and Pain....

God didn't give us pain to hurt us. God gave us pain so we can conquer it, learn from it, and be our best because of it. Try not to let any type of pain keep you down. Physical, emotional, mental, psychological, etc, it doesn't matter. They are a gift from God. Stay strong, push through. The winner in the end will be you.I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultive.
~ Dalai Lama

Meredith Grey quotes

Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.Pain, you just have to ride it out, hope it goes away on its own, hope the wound that caused it heals. There are no solutions, no easy answers, you just breath deep and wait for it to subside. Most of the time pain can be managed but sometimes the pain gets you where you least expect it. Hits way below the belt and doesn't let up. Pain, you just have to fight through, because the truth is you can't outrun it and life always makes more.

A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep. In dreams you will lose your heartaches. Whatever you wish for, you keep. Have faith in your dreams, and someday, your rainbow will come smiling through. No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true. -Cinderell

Where are your guts to fly. Soaring through, through the night and if you take that last step, I'll follow you. Leave the edge and fly...We're finally alive.We're flying through the night. We're flying through the night, way up high. The view from here is getting better. With you by my side.

Love forever....

I have known love. I have had it, held it tight, and lost it. A broken heart cannot be mended, for when true love is given, hearts are traded between two souls. And between the two, the other's heart shall forever remain. That is why when love is lost, the pain is so immense. You have no control of where your heart is taken, by the one you forever will love.

Destiny

Only Destiny gave birth to Spirituality and nothing else, because this is also a form that reflects in the Great Void of non-Knowledge from the Mirror of Knowledge in order to keep the image of Spirituality as closest as possible to the Great Void-Being. Thus only the Spirituality is closer to the great Void-Being that is described to us through death and through the destiny of this Death which can be as tender to this ephemeral existence as he can be unforgiving to the mans Sacred Self.

 Sorin Cerin

Moments..

What would be important to me in a moment like this one would be not to deem a mans life or Mankind as a tear of pain on the Creators face, but to think of it as a tear of happiness and fulfilment on its face called nature, which we see with the most diverse landscapes of this world. Then I will want with all my heart to thank to our Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one for the fact that this world is given to us only through the fact that we know of its existence, but be do not Know it and we will never Know it, precisely because KNOWLEDGE DOES NOT EXIST
 Sorin Cerin quotes 

When The Sun Refuses To Shine......

When the Sun refuses to shine on your day,

And you’re finding it hard to cope,

When you’re seeing more rain clouds

Than stars in the sky,

And you feel like giving up hope,


That’s the time when someone comes along

With a smile and a warm hug that says:

‘It’s okay – tomorrow will be a better day,

So, don’t give up now, for brighter moments

For you are surely on their way!’


Emily Matthews

Take These Broken Wings And learn to fly again ....

Take These Broken Wings

And learn to fly again

And learn to live so free.

And when we hear the voices sing,

The book of love will open up

And let us in.

O take the broken wings, Great Spirit Father/Mother Creator,

Of all human souls and the soul of our whole world.

Help us fly on the mighty wings of Your sacred

Wisdom and Truth that is now waiting to flow directly

From Your loving heart into all those who are ready to

Receive and use it, under Your guidance and protection

And in accordance with Your will and wishes,

For the blessing and healing of our world and all worlds.


Amen 

You Can Do It!

You don’t need to be told:

‘Life’s not easy and some hills are harder to climb!’

You don’t need to be told:

‘Have patience, it’ll all come, in time!’


You’ve got enough determination

To see you through,

And if you muster the patience,

Good luck will come, too.


You may have to weather a storm or two,

But don’t put your plans on the shelf.

You’ll only get where you’re going,

If you believe in yourself.


So go on, give life your best shot.

Success will not pass you by,

If you can remember that the only failures

Are the people who never try!


Anon.

The Mountain Of Life

We are all climbing different paths up the mountain of life

And everybody sometimes must experience hardship and strife.

Many paths lead up the mountain of life,

And some of its climbs feel like the point of a knife.


Some paths are short and others are long,

Who can say which one is right or wrong?

The beauty of truth is that each way has its own song,

By listening closely we find where we belong.


So climb your own path true and strong,

But respect all other truths, too,

For your way for others may well be wrong.


Dan Inosanto

Eternity Is Today

Every new day is a source of mystery

In which the past, present and future are one.

It is like a river in which each drop of water

Is linked to its tiny spring on a distant mountain slope,

As well as one of our world’s far away blue oceans.


In just the same way this today of ours is part of Eternity,

Every precious moment of every day that’s where we dwell.

Eternity is not something to be waited for until leaving the physical plane.

Knowing this demands that we live in a manner that is worthy of it,

So when reaching the other side we can look back on ourselves with gladness.


Emptying our hearts and souls of the concerns

Of our lower nature, like vengefulness, hatred and greed,

Raises our consciousness into the desires of our Highest Self.

Our whole being fills with kindness, compassion and love for all life.

Now, at long last we are worthy of Eternity.


Ku Sang 1984

Edited by Aquarius

The Time Is Now

The Time Is Now

Time for celebration, for relaxation and inspiration,

For new beginnings and finding better ways of being.

Time for fresh creation and affirmation,

For experiencing beauty and love

In higher and more meaningful ways.


Time for life and living and for forgiving,

For being healed and healing,

Ourselves, each other and our world.

Time for listening to intuition and inspiration,

So that healing may flow through us,

To guide and show us how to conduct our lives

More wholly and meaningfully.

For reaching out to each other in friendship

And discovering new ways of loving totally and unconditionally.

Finding fulfilment by giving to our planet and healing it,

Instead of merely taking and stealing from it.


Time for each to strive to fulfil their own Highest potential,

As well as that of all humankind and the Earth.

Each doing their own share of making God’s

Greatest dreams and ambitions for humankind come true, through us.

Time for applying ourselves and our lives to living

In peace and kinship with all sentient beings on the Earth plane,

As well as those presently in the world of spirit.


Time for freedom from all oppression,

Especially of the spiritual kind,

Through shedding false beliefs, superstitions and illusions

That in the past stopped us from recognising our true nature.

Time for living our ideals, following our

Highest dreams for ourselves and our world

By refusing to act on the desires of our lower earthly nature,

Resisting all selfishness and greed,

Until ever more wish to follow our example.


Time for sewing fresh seeds,

In our own hearts and minds and those of others.

Mustering the courage to speak up with the voice of our true selves,

So that we may fully become once more that which we always have been,

Since long before all life on this planet began, and that is love.


That’s why I’m telling you: ‘The time is now!’


Anon.

Edited by Aquarius

Eve Merriam

“From the vast, invisible ocean of moonlight overhead fell, here and here, a slender, broken stream that seemed to plash against the intercepting branches and trickle to earth, forming small white pools among the clumps of laurel. But these leaks were few and served only to accentuate the blackness of his environment, which his imagination found it easy to people with all manner of unfamiliar shapes, menacing, uncanny, or merely grotesque.

He to whom the portentous conspiracy of night and solitude and silence in the heart of a great forest is not an unknown experience needs not to be told what another world it all is - how even the most commonplace and familiar objects take on another character. The trees group themselves differently; they draw closer together, as if in fear. The very silence has another quality than the silence of the day. And it is full of half-heard whispers, whispers that startle - ghosts of sounds long dead. There are living sounds, too, such as are never heard under other conditions: notes of strange night birds, the cries of small animals in sudden encounters with stealthy foes, or in their dreams, a rustling in the dead leaves - it may be the leap of a wood rat, it may be the footstep of a panther. What caused the breaking of that twig? What the low, alarmed twittering in that bushful of birds? There are sounds without a name, forms without substance, translations in space of objects which have not been seen to move, movements wherein nothing is observed to change its place. Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live! ("A Tough Tussle")” ― Ambrose Bierce, Ghost Stories
7:06pm, 30 May - Riju Sharma: “The touch of your fingers grazing mine delicate as a single drop of wine in a crystal goblet. Rolling it round, I savor it on my tongue, try to make it last forever.

The words I love you form in the air and melt.

Your palm against my cheek, light as a snowflake.” ― Eve Merriam

When Death Comes ― Mary Oliver

“When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage of darkness?

And therefore I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood, and I look upon time as no more than an

and I consider eternity as another possibility,

and I think of each life as a flower, as

as a field daisy, and as singular,

and each name a comfortable music in the

tending, as all music does, toward silence,

and each body as a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth.

[from the poem "When Death Comes"]” ― Mary Oliver

I can....

At time, even the Sun’s brightness is overshadowed by Clouds.
Why can’t yours?
However dark and dense the Cloud may be, the Sun will shine back and it will shine the brightest.
Why can’t you?”
“He’s great who can do what he wishes. He is wise who wishes to do what he can.”
“Give thousand chances to your enemy to become your friends, but don’t give a single chance to your friend to become your enemy.”
“Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
“I’ll come again. As a mountain you can’t grow but as a human, I can.”
-Sir Edmund Hillary-

Naram boondo main musalsal barisho ke samanay..........

Naram boondo main musalsal barisho ke samanay

Asmaan ke neel main, Komal suroo ke samanay

Ye guzartay din humaray panchio ke roop main

Tang shakho main kabhi khuwaabidagi ki dhoop main

Hain kabhi ojhal kabhi sukh ki hado ke samanay

Chehchahatay, geet gatay badalo ke shehar main

Koo e jana ki, hawa main gul rukho ke shehar main

Ik  jamaal e be sakoo ki hasarato ke samanay

Sabaz medaan main, Banu main, Kohsaaro main kabhi

Zard pato main kabhi, ujali baharo main kabhi

Qaid e ghum main ya khuli azaadio ke samanay

Badalne Wale Toh Har Cheez Badal Dete Hai....

Badalne Wale Toh Har Cheez Badal Dete Hain
Kamaan Se Nikla Teer Badal Dete Hain
Tum Toh Mere Chaar Ansu Na Badal Sake
Badalne Wale Toh Taqdeer Badal Dete Hain


Raaste Badal Jaate Hain, Manzilain Badal Jaati Hain

Raaste Badal Jaate Hain, Manzilain Badal Jaati Hain
Kyun Nahin Badalte Dil Jo Taqdeerain Badal Jaati Hain
Dil Wohi Rehta Hai, Yaadon Ki Anginat Karchaiyaan Le Ke
Aankhon Ki Nami Chupa Kar, Nazrain Badal Jaati Hain
Rooh Rehti Hai Har Lamha Ashkbaar, Lab Hanste Hain
Bahar Aur Andar Ki Kis Tarah Fizaain Badal Jaati Hain
Koi Hota Hai Rafta Rafta Zindagi Se Door, Bohot Door
Haathon Ki Yeh Lakeerain Kyun Aksar Badal Jaati Hain !!

Is Raat Ki Tanhayeoon Ke...Unknown

Is Raat Ki Tanhayeoon Ke
Sab Rang Badal Gaye Hain
Chand Nikla Hain Wesay Hi
Andharay Badal Gaye Hain

Jin Ke Bharoosay Thi Khushiyan
Woh Badal Thahar Gaye Hain
Manzalain Tu Ab Bhi Wohi Hain
Kuch Rastay Badal Gaye Hain

Jin Pe Kiua Tha Bharosa Hum Nay
Woh Dost Bichar Gaye Hain
Dekhay Thay Hum Nay Jo
Woh Khuwab Badal Gaye Hain

Jo Baney Thay Kabhi Humsafar
Aaj Woh Hi Mukkar Gaye Hain
Iss Tutay Huwey Dil Ke Sarey
Jazbat Badal Gaye Hain

Na Badlay Kabhi Hum
Na Badlay Hamarey Khayalat
Bas Rona Hain Yehi
Kuch Log Badal Gaye Hain

Humein Waqt Ke Saath Rang Badalna Nahin Aata...unknown

Dil Mein Samaane Waale Ko Bhulaana Nahin Aata
Humko Unse Milne Ka Bahaana Nahin Aata
Dil Ki Duniya Mein Jhaanklo Mere Armaanon Ki Khabar Kya Tumko?
Mujhe Unke Saamne Kuch Bhi Kehna Nahin Aata
Dhadkan Jo Bangayaa Hai Use Manaana Nahin Aata
Humein To Aankhon Se Baat Bataana Nahin Aata
Unki Naraazgi Kis Taraah Chubti Hai Mere Is Naazuk Se Dil Ko
Humein Yeh Takleef Ko Lafzon Mein Dhhalna Nahin Aata
Mohabbat Kya Hai Yeh Samjhaana Nahin Aata
Humein To Aapko Yoon Pyaar Mein Jagaana Nahin Aata
Humse To Keh Gaye Ke Mohabbat Mein Tadap Ko Shaamil Na Karo
Sach To Yeh Hai Ke Aapko Mohabbat Nibhaana Nahin Aata
Humein Aapko Judaai Mein Rulaana Nahin Aata
Apni Masoom Harkaton Se Aapko Sataana Nahin Aata
Dil Ke Darwaze Ko Khol Kar Dekhlo Mere Mehboo Naam Kiska Hai Likha
Humein Who Naam Aapko Padhaana Nahin Aata
Kitna Aapko Chaahte Hain Yeh Jataana Nahin Aata
Mujhe Yoonhi Kisi Ke Dil Se Khelna Nahin Aata
Saari Duniya Par Zaahir Kardiya Humne Apne Haal-E-Dil
Humein Apne Dil Ki Haalth Ko Chhupaana Nahin Aata
Apne Guftagoo Se Kisike Dil Ko Masalna Nahin Aata
Humein Yoonhi Kisi Ki Khubsoorti Par Phisalna Nahin Aata
Mohabbat Ko Pakeezgi Ka Naam Diya Hai Use Pakeezgi Se Pesh Karenge
Humein Waqt Ke Saath Rang Badalna Nahin Aata

 It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.” ― Coco Chanel

Some Famous quotes

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.  ~Hans Christian Andersen


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."  ~Erma Bombeck


The purpose of life is a life of purpose.  ~Attributed to both Ludwig Wittgenstein and Robert Byrne


I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.  This makes it hard to plan the day.  ~Elwyn Brooks White


Life is simple, it's just not easy.  ~Author Unknown


A life without cause is a life without effect.  ~Barbarella


Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. ~Richard Bach


Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. ~Terri Guillemets


The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. ~Henry David Thoreau


I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. ~Jack Handey


Life is a foreign language:  all men mispronounce it.  ~Christopher Morley,Thunder on the Left


Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
~Robert Frost, "Cluster of Faith," 1962


In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.  ~Kathy Norris


To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.  ~Emily Dickinson


Yes, I will try to be.  Because I believe that not being is arrogant.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.  ~Ashleigh Brilliant


I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.  ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes


You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.  ~Quentin Crisp


As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose.  ~Author Unknown


I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.  ~Charles Schulz


Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.  ~Arthur Miller


Life is like a blanket too short.  You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.  ~Marion Howard


Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.  ~Author Unknown


You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.  ~Charles Johnson


Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.  ~Danny Kaye


I have a simple philosophy:  Fill what's empty.  Empty what's full.  Scratch where it itches.  ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth


Life is like a coin.  You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.  ~Lillian Dickson


We are born wet, naked, and hungry.  Then things get worse.  ~Author Unknown


Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.  ~Author Unknown


Life is a cement trampoline.  ~Howard Nordberg


To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.  ~Jeremy Taylor


Life... is like a box of chocolates - a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates.  So, you're stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there's nothing else to eat while you're watching the game.  Sure, once is a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but it's gone too fast and the taste is fleeting.  In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper.  ~The X-Files


He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche


God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.  ~Author Unknown


Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.  ~Grandma Moses


I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.  ~Jim Carrey


The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.  ~John, Viscount Morley, Address on Aphorisms


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.  ~Erich Fromm


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.  ~Cary Grant


To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.  ~Havelock Ellis


Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another.  ~Author Unknown


My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.  ~Louis Adamic


No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.  ~Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November 1838


Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.  I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl.  Let him come out as I do, and bark.  ~Samuel Johnson


Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told:  "I am with you kid.  Let's go."  ~Maya Angelou


Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you?  ~Author Unknown


Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.  ~George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma, 1906


Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


'Tis all a chequer board of nights and days,
Where destiny with men for pieces plays;
Hither and thither, and mates, and slays.
~Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, 1859


Life: It is about the gift not the package it comes in.  ~Dennis P. Costea, Jr.


...the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.  ~Walt Whitman, "O Me! O Life!", Leaves of Grass


Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.  The world owes you nothing.  It was here first.  ~Mark Twain


Life is the game that must be played.  ~Edwin Arlington Robinson


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.  ~Albert Camus


There is no wealth but life.  ~John Ruskin


I know what things are good:  friendship and work and conversation.  These I shall have.  ~Rupert Brooke


Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.  ~Jerome K. Jerome


The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.  ~Henry David Thoreau


I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Life is not a final.  It's daily pop quizzes.  ~Author Unknown


Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne.  Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.  ~Gioacchino Rossini


We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.  ~Paul Eldridge


I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.  ~T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.  ~F. Scott Fitzgerald


Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.  ~Anton Chekhov


Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.  ~Antonio Porchia,Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Here is the world.  Beautiful and terrible things will happen.  Don't be afraid.  ~Frederick Buechner


Life is like sailing.  You can use any wind to go in any direction.  ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com


Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.  ~W. Somerset Maugham


In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.  ~Diego Marchi


I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.
~Robert Browning


Today, fill your cup of life with sunshine and laughter.  ~Dodinsky,www.dodinsky.com


Life may have no meaning.  Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.  ~Ashleigh Brilliant


Life is an incurable Disease.  ~Abraham Cowley


Different shades of life make the painting more beautiful.  ~Mike Dolan,www.hawaiianlife.com


The philosophy of mine earth can be summed up as this:  Sunshine creates happiness, and I create myself.  Nights are long and life is predominantly good.  Wind is refreshing.  Tea is wisdom.  Do the best you can, and be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others.  ~Jessi Lane Adams


Human life is purely a matter of deciding what's important to you.  ~Anonymous


For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.  ~Albert Camus


Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.  ~Christopher Isherwood


I ask of life to shine meaning in everyone who is searching.  ~Aurora Hernandez


The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy.  ~Angelina Jolie


Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.  ~Bruce Crampton


Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.  ~Mignon McLaughlin,The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


In masks outrageous and austere
The years go by in single file;
But none has merited my fear,
And none has quite escaped my smile.
~Elinor Hoyt Wylie, Let No Charitable Hope


To succeed in life, you need three things:  a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.  ~Reba McEntire


The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.  ~Thomas Carlyle


I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.  ~Havelock Ellis


Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.  ~Joseph Addison


We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist. ~Karen Horney, Our Inner Conflicts, 1945, referring to psychoanalysis


Give us Lord, a bit o' sun,
A bit o' work and a bit o' fun;
Give us all in the struggle and sputter
Our daily bread and a bit o' butter.
~From an inn in Lancaster, England


All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.  ~Ovid


The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.  ~Heywood Broun


Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.  ~Author Unknown


When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wisest man.  "O, great sage," he says, "tell me the meaning of life."  The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life.  When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, "Do you have any other questions, my son?"  Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, "You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?"  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Life is a long process of getting tired.  ~Samuel Butler


I really enjoy life I'm just not good at it.  ~Daniel, @blindedpoet


He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.  ~Moroccan Proverb


The kaleidoscope of colour which is my life, shows the interesting choices I've made along the way.  ~Antie Koekie


But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.  ~Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum


I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


God asks no man whether he will accept life.  That is not the choice.  You must take it.  The only question is how.  ~Henry Ward Beecher


Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.  ~Douglas Adams


Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?  ~George Bernard Shaw


There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life.  It goes on.  ~Robert Frost


To whoever invented fantasy, redwood trees, and apple pie for breakfast:  well done.  ~Dr. SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com


Life is like a ten-speed bicycle.  Most of us have gears we never use.  ~Charles Schulz


There is no finish line.  ~Nike advertisement


It may be life is only worthwhile at moments.  Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.  ~Sherwood Anderson


I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse.  I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.  ~Ludwig Wittgenstein


The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.  ~Thomas Jefferson


Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.  ~Vita Sackville-West


The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.  ~William Lyon Phelps


Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.  ~James Russell Lowell


In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.  ~Charlie Brown


The world is a grindstone and life is your nose.  ~Fred Allen


Not unfortunately the universe is wild - game-flavoured as a hawk's wing.  ~B.P. Blood


The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.  ~Chinese Proverb


People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle.  But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.  Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize:  a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes.  All is a miracle.  ~Thich Nhat Hanh


You live and learn.  At any rate, you live.  ~Douglas Adams


Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions.  ~Didier D’haese


Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life.  Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.  ~Learned Hand


The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.  It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.  ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden


Life is the sum of all your choices.  ~Albert Camus


Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. ~Søren Kierkegaard


Life is all about how you handle Plan B. ~Author Unknown


Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.  ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com


Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light.  Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky.  Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.  ~Seneca


Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


If A equals success, then the formula is:  A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut.  ~Albert Einstein


I gave my life to learning how to live.
Now that I have organized it all...
It is just about over.
~Sandra Hochman


There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination.  Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.  ~Anaïs Nin


Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Life is a horizontal fall.  ~Jean Cocteau


Today was good.  Today was fun.  Tomorrow is another one.  ~Dr. Seuss


[P]erhaps nothing 'ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late.  It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.  ~George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Adam Bede


Only a few things are really important.  ~Marie Dressler

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

The movement of life has to rest in its own music. ~Rabindranath Tagore


The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.  ~Henry Miller


Everything that occurs in your life is part of God's plan to wake you up.  ~Leonard Jacobson


Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little.  ~Thomas Aloysius Dorgan


Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities.  It also holds pitfalls.  The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.  ~Woody Allen, "My Speech to the Graduates," Side Effects, 1980


There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.  ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com


Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. ~Martin H. Fischer


Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty. Resistance makes it ugly. ~Terri Guillemets


Life has no auto-settings. No batteries. You gots to wind it up! ~Jeb Dickerson,www.howtomatter.com


Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.  ~Danny Orton and Blair Daly, "Stand"


If you stop struggling, then you stop life.  ~Huey Newton


Sometimes questions are more important than answers.  ~Nancy Willard, quoted in The Meaning of Life, compiled by Hugh S. Moorhead


It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.  ~Phillips Brooks


My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.  ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com


There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.  ~William Lyon Phelps


The world itself is but a series of footnotes to a vast unfinished masterpiece. ~Vladimir Nabokov


The swing on your porch is a better liver of life than the chair in front of your desk. ~Terri Guillemets