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

-- Stephen Leacock

"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean."

-- David Sedaris

"Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

-- Mary Oliver

"We make our lives by what we love."

-- John Cage

"To be a friend is to step into the stream of another's life."

-- Todd May

"Life is a succession of moments; to live each one is to succeed."

-- Corita Kent

"When you offer no resistance to life, life begins to work for you."

-- Eckhart Tolle

"The simple ability to pay attention to the world as we find it may be at the heart of a soulful life worth living."

-- David Whyte

"Life started working for me when I started treating my lovers like my friends and my friends more like my lovers."

-- Marianne Williamson

"I discovered a great secret: When I drop my mask and speak from my heart, life responds."

-- David Cates

"To be successful on life or work you need to know what you're doing, love what you're doing, and believe what you're doing."

-- Will Rogers

"The whole of life lies in the verb seeing."

-- Teilhard de Chardin

"The personality will, we are continually amazed, kiss any required part of the anatomy to rise in the world; the soul refuses to kiss anything but life itself, and then, as Blake says, only as it flies."

-- David Whyte

"Even if our life be very small, if we grasp it to the extent that it is being, then it is more noble than anything that ever attained life."

-- Meister Eckhart

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

-- Marcus Aurelius

"How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life."

-- Wittgenstein

"You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you."

-- Joseph Campbell

"Letting your mind control your life is like letting an eight-year-old drive your car."

-- Shiva Rea

"Life is an acting job, and you are a fictional character."

-- Marianne Williamson

"If I had to live my life over again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

-- Tallulah Bankhead