Alan Watts: We could...

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
/Alan Watts/

Farrah Gray: In life...

In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.
/Farrah Gray/

Alfred Korzybski: There are...

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
/Alfred Korzybski/

E. W. Howe: When men...

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
/E. W. Howe/

Ethel Watts Mumford: In the...

In the midst of life we are in debt.
/Ethel Watts Mumford/

Charles Darwin: A man...

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.
/Charles Darwin/

Gao Xingjian: In the...

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
/Gao Xingjian/

Joseph Campbell: What each...

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
/Joseph Campbell/

Rene Magritte: If the...

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
/Rene Magritte/

Willie Aames: My wife...

My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me.
/Willie Aames/

Eugene O'Neill: For a...

For a moment I lost myself, actually lost my life. I was set free! I belonged, without past or future, within peace and unity and a wild joy, within something greater than my own life ... to life itself. I caught a glimpse of something greater than myself.
/Eugene O'Neill/

Richard Le Gallienne: Perhaps we...

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.
/Richard Le Gallienne/

Charles Lamb: My theory...

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
/Charles Lamb/

Paul Theroux: The writer...

The writer is odd from day one and in the course of pursuing this maddening profession becomes distinctly odder... It is not unusual for a successful writer - your favorite, the one you think of as full of sunshine, wisdom and laughter - to spend great portions of his or her life in a state of fury, hideously disappointed, or even raving mad... for a writer it is almost essential to pursue a solitary passion in the open air.
/Paul Theroux/

Winston Churchill: You make...

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
/Winston Churchill/