Let Life Flow Through You

Lighten up and let life flow through you, and be on the waves as they go up and down.

A great image in mythology is Tristan (Tristan and Isolde).
He's out there on a little boat without an oar,
without a rudder, on the Irish sea . . .

You float your way. You drift.
... be extravagantly
accepting and forgiving
of yourself and others.

Ride the waves and let life take you
where it has good things for you.

- Thomas Moore

Marriage

Marriage is not a ritual or an end.
It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together
and nothing matters more
than your own sense of balance
and your choice of partner.

- Amy Bloom

Approach to Life

The world is my country,
all mankind are my brethren,
and to do good is my religion.

- Thomas Paine

Life's Challenges

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you,
They're supposed to help you discover who you are.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

Life as a Blank Canvas

I decided I'd treat this juncture in my life
as a blank canvas,
sketch an intention to achieve some good
and let life paint it in.

- Marc Barasch

Life Force

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over
into imagination and will.
Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms.
You for one.
Me for another.
The Universe has shouted itself alive.
We are one of the shouts.

- Ray Bradbury

Life

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Travelling Our Path

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.

Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

- Rosalia de Castro

Voice Within

It is then that you will hear a voice within yourself.

It was there all the time, but you never listened before.

Faintly it will speak to you at first,

but it will grow louder and clearer the more you take heed of its message

until one day it thunders inside you

and you will have come home.

- Rusty Berkus

Universe - New Only To Us

I am comforted by life's stability,
by earth's unchangeableness.
What has seemed new and frightening
assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge.
It is good to know our universe.
What is new is only new to us.

- Pearl S. Buck

Gift in Difficult Times

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before,
how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way,
and that so many things that one goes worrying about
are of no importance whatsoever.

- Isak Dinesen

Gratitude

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal
more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude
that life becomes rich.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Life is ...

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

- Stephen Leacock

Ocean of Life

Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Free Will

Life is like a game of cards.
The hand that is dealt you represents determinism;
the way you play it is free will.

- Jawaharal Nehru