Life Quotes

The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.

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"When you die to the past, you are reborn in the now."
Eckhart Tolle
"We're all just walking each other home."
Ram Dass
"It's not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you."
Ram Dass
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"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
Helena Blavatsky
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"You are the big here and now, looking out through two small holes in your face."
Alan Watts
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"The real secret of life is the ability to enjoy things."
Alan Watts
"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 it is play."
Annie Besant
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"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a joy to be experienced and lived fully."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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"The quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you ask yourself."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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"The purpose of life is to expand infinitely in all directions."
Deepak Chopra
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"You are the universe in human form. Act accordingly."
Deepak Chopra
"Life's purpose is to know and love the Divine."
Paramahansa Yogananda
"We're all just walking each other home."
Ram Dass
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Ram Dass
"Life is a dance between doing and being."
Ram Dass
"Life is not about immortality; it's about legacy."
Ram Dass
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"Most people confuse thinking about life with actually living it."
Eckhart Tolle
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"Simplicity is achieved not by having less, but by wanting less."
Eckhart Tolle
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"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles; meanwhile within man is the soul of the whole."
Helena Blavatsky
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"Life is a series of tests and lessons."
Helena Blavatsky
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"Life is not a struggle; it is a play of consciousness."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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"The quality of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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"You're not something that happens in the universe; the universe is something that happens in you."
Alan Watts
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"Most of us are not really afraid of dying; we're afraid of not having lived."
Alan Watts
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"You are a function of what the whole universe is doing."
Alan Watts
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"We spend our lives standing in line waiting for something that is not real."
Alan Watts
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"The purpose of life is not to arrive at death in good condition."
Alan Watts
"Life is a school of experience where every lesson teaches growth."
Annie Besant
"Life is a gift; treat each moment as irreplaceable."
Annie Besant
"The body is a harp; and it is rather for us to play it aright than to say that it plays itself or is played by another."
Paramahansa Yogananda