Life & Meaning

Exploring the purpose, balance, and impermanence of life.

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“Forever is composed of nows.”
— Emily Dickinson
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
— Carl Sagan
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
— Anne Frank
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
— Lao Tzu
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
— Maya Angelou
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“One of the big surprises for me about Einstein was... that he wasn't this big introvert; he was more like a novelist or a painter. It's amazing how close society came to not benefiting from Albert Einstein's genius.”
— Ron Howard
“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts" ... Albert Einstein”
— Albert Einstein
“"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."”
— Gratitude
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant. There is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.”
— Georgia O'Keeffe
“To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage.”
— Confucius
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
— Confucius
“Study the past if you would define the future.”
— Confucius
“Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
— Socrates
“Love is bigger than anything in its way.”
— U2
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
— Plutarch
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
— Robert Brault
“I wish I was so busy having fun, that I forgot about all the trouble.”
— Tim Nauman
“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
— Carl Bard
“Children see magic because they look for it.”
— Christopher Moore
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.”
— George R. R. Martin
“To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.”
— Barbara Johnson
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
— James Baldwin
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
— Anne Lamott
“The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.”
— Fred Rogers
“The earth is what we all have in common.”
— Wendell Berry
“If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.”
— Toni Morrison
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
— Pema Chödrön
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”
— Brene Brown