LIFE

"Lost time is never found again." (Benjamin Franklin)

“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.” (Chinese Proverb)

"The bad news is nothing lasts forever. The good news is nothing lasts forever." (J Cole)

“Experience does for the soul what education does for the mind.” (Casey Neistat)

“If you stop growing, you start dying.” (William S. Burroughs)

“Life itself is your teacher. Always be in a state of constant learning.” (Bruce Lee)

“We learn not for school, but for life.” (Seneca)

“Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” (Samuel Butler)

“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching.” (William W. Purky)

“Life is too important to be taken seriously.” (Oscar Wilde)

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist." (Oscar Wilde)

"Live the life you love. Love the life you live." (Bob Marley)

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted." (Albert Einstein)

"Life is full of rivers that carry you where you least expect it."

"The bad new is that time flies. The good new is that you're the pilot."

"Life is a journey, time is a river, enjoy the journey." (Phil Jackson)

"Life is going to be short, no matter how long it is." (Maya Angelou)

"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn." (Mahatma Gandhi)

"Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging." (Marcus Aurelius)

“You have to practice life to enjoy life.”

“You can leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say” (Marcus Aurelius)

“The spiritual journey does not consist in arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning oneself in life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to oneself.” (Aldous Huxley)

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing" - Marcus Aurelius

"I'm a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, and I am actualizing myself daily to be an Artist of life." (Bruce Lee)

"You don't have a life, you are life itself, discover this and be free." (Mooji)

“The bad news is time flies, the good news is your the pilot.” (Michael Altschuler)

"To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave." (Michel de Montaigne)

“Do what you want. Do what must be done. But do them both well.” (Marcus Charles)

“Life doesn’t always introduce you to the people you want to meet. Sometimes life puts you in touch with the people you need to meet - to help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you, and to gradually strengthen you into the person you were meant to be.”

“Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.” (Nietzsche)

“Too much of the animal distorts the civilized man, too much civilization makes sick animals.” (Carl Jung)

“We do not ‘come into’ this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.” (Alan Watts)

“Life is an incredible curriculum in which we live it richly and passionately as a way of awakening to the deepest truths of our being” (Ram Dass)

“There’s no performance, only practice.” (Tom Bilyeu)

“If:

• this evil is my doing,
• nor the result of it,
• and the community is not endangered,
• why should it bother me?
• Where’s the danger for the community?” (Marcus Aurelius)

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” (Oscar Wilde)

“Many people die at twenty-five but aren’t buried until they’re seventy-five.” (B.F)

“While we are alive we have a thousand wishes, but when were dying we have one.”

“It’s like writing on water or building houses of sand." (Osho)

"Everyone starts out innocent. Everyone is corrupted. Wisdom is the discarding of vices and the return to virtue, by way of knowledge." (Naval from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, pg. 200)

“The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.” (Werner Heisenberg)

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.” (Paulo Coelho in The Fifth Mountain)

".....we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us." (Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning pg. 77)

“It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.” (Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

“If my aim is to prove I am enough, the project goes on to infinity, because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.” (Nathaniel Branden)

“Death is life’s [God's] greatest invention.” (Jack Dorsey)

"Some day you will be old enough to read fairy tales again..." (C.S. Lewis)

“Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up. Not really. They get older. But to grow up costs the earth, the earth. It means you take responsibility for the time you take up, for the space you occupy. It’s serious business. And you find out what it costs us to love and to lose, to dare and to fail. And maybe even more, to succeed." (Maya Angelou)

“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.” (William Hazlitt)

"New goals don't deliver new results, new lifestyles do." (James Clear)

“If it’s right, nothing you can do can make it go wrong. If it’s wrong, nothing you can do can make it right.” (Josh over firecamp on 7/23 - referencing a friends quote)

“Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.” (Kierkegaard)

“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.” (Saint Augustine - 354 A.D. - 430 A.D.)

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.” (Victor E. Frankl)

“Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.” (Carl Jung)

"Every moment there are a million miracles happening around you:

a flower blossoming, a bird tweeting,

a bee humming, a raindrop falling,

a snowflake wafting along

the clear evening air.

There is magic everywhere.

If you learn how to live it,

life is nothing short of a daily miracle." (Sadhguru)

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