“ The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone. Jalaluddin Rumi
“ The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and uniqu… Alan W. Watts
“ All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. Raymond Hull
“ We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. E. M. Forster
“ Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living? Mahatma Gandhi
“ This is what I think aboutwhen I shovel compostinto a wheelbarrow,and when I fill the long flower boxes,then press into rowsthe limp roots of red impatiens—the instant hand of Deathalways ready to bur… Billy Collins
“ That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn thing placed directly there, with nothing you can do about it... Philip K. Dick
“ Once upon a time she had liked to dance. When she had been about the same age as the little brunette out there who kept lifting her dress up over her head. Now that was living. Just lift your dress if… Erin McCarthy
“ It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different. Zora Neale Hurston
“ If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I ha… Henry David Thoreau
“ I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, th… Jeanette Winterson
“ Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a brief transit through a sorry world hardly called for effusiveness, even when the path was suddenly irr… Thomas Hardy
“ And I am not one of these long-living fictional characters who prays for death as a release from the captivity of eternal life; not for me the endless whining and wailing of the undead. John Boyne
