“Life is a verb.” ~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make a difference that you have lived and lived well.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” ~Benjamin Franklin

“The life which is unexamined is not worth living.” ~Plato

“There's roads and there's roads
And they call, can't you hear it?
Roads of the earth
And roads of the spirit.
The best roads of all
Are the ones that aren't certain.
~Bruce Cockburn

“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything, and who, having eyes to see what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on!” ~Laurence Sterne

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~Gandhi

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.” ~C. S. Lewis

“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.” ~Agnes De Mille

“Live your questions now and perhaps, even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.” ~R. M. Rilke

“Every people ask: 'What can I actually do?' We can, each of us, work to put our own inner house in order. The guidance we need for this work cannot be found in science or technology, the value of which utterly depends on the ends they serve; but it can still be found in the traditional wisdom of mankind.” ~E. F. Schumacher

“If we don't change, we don't grow ... if we don't grow we aren't really living.” ~unknown

“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” ~Marcel Proust

“Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans.” ~Betty Talmadge

“In the morning be first vp, and in the euening last to go to bed, for they that sleepe catch no fish.” ~English Proverb, 16th century

“God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.”
~Theodore Roethke, The Waking

“Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me: they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through, wondering what the next course is going to be like—and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.” ~Saki

“By all means use sometimes to be alone.
Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.
Dare to look in thy chest, for 'tis thine own:
And tumble up and down what thou find'st there.”
~George Herbert

“Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.” ~Herman Melville

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~Marcel Proust

“He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.” ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia

“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.” ~Thomas Huxley

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.” ~Dr. Seuss (Theodore “Ted” Seuss Geisel)

“I see the tree, I turn the mower.” ~Richard Booth, City of Seattle Lawn Master


Japanese proverbs

 You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube.
 Don't go to the fishpond without a net.
 The thousand-mile journey starts with one step.



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