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Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
Henry David Thoreau - Journal






A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
Carl Gustav Jung






For the use of words, and thus of a book, is to point beyond themselves to a world of life and experience that is not mere words or even ideas. Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life.
Alan Watts - The Book – On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are / 






We are all travellers. And this journey is life.
Christiane Singer / 






Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Alfred Adler / 






It takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
Seneca - De Brevitate vitæ / 






Nature is the best guide of a good life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / 






Joy always announces that life has succeeded, gained ground, conquered. All great joy has a triumphant note.
Henri Bergson - L’Énergie spirituelle / 






The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
Alan Watts / 






Pleasure is the beginning and end of the blessed life.
Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus / 






Who knows? How odd and fickle is life ! How little is needed to ruin or rescue us !
Guy de Maupassant / 






There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
Alphonse de Lamartine / 






Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr. / 






He who plays with life
Never gets ahead.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 






Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
Henry David Thoreau






Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in one's own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / 






This is the real secret of life: to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now, and instead of calling it 'work', realize that this is play.
Alan Watts / 






Order does not create life.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery / 






Humanity prefers to life reasons to live.
Simone de Beauvoir / 






To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / 






When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.
Paulo Coelho






It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.
Paulo Coelho






The highest life is mathematics.
Novalis - Fragments / 






Every person born into this world has a natural right to sustain, preserve, and defend his own life to the best of his ability.
Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron / 






Life attracts life.
Paulo Coelho






Every moment of life is a step towards death.
Pierre Corneille / 






O philosophy, life’s guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero






Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion
Wilhelm Reich






If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Émile Zola






True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy










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