Life is far more interesting than it needs to be, because the forces that guide it are not merely practical. --David Rothenberg (in David Rothenberg: The Joy & Mystery of Interspecies Music Making)

When you are present in your own life it extends infinitely in every direction. --John Tarrant (in You Don't Have to Know: Our Dark Materials)

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is. --Saul Bellow (in Why Beauty Matters)

I think I'm in rather honest company in asserting that there is an authentic self that's got nothing to do with your life history. You can lose contact with it, but you can never destroy it, and it's always been there. --Gabor Mate (in Gabor Mate: Healing Into Wholeness in a Toxic Culture)

Wholeness is a kind of attitude or approach to the whole of life. If we can have a coherent approach to reality then reality will respond coherently to us. --David Bohm (in Separation Without Separateness: A Day That Changed My Life)

Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness. --Leo Tolstoy (in 2000 Years of Kindness)

Our brains renew themselves throughout life to an extent previously thought not possible. --Michael S. Gazzaniga (in The Power of Brain Training)

The Greek division of human life into "mind," "body," "emotions," "psyche," and "spirit" underlies the modern Western view. The Semitic languages do not divide reality in this way. They provide multiple words for the subconscious self, all tied to the communal self. They imply a continuum between what we call spirit and body, not a division. --Neil Douglas-Klotz (in Hidden Teachings on Life & Death)

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. --Neale Donald Walsch (in Remote Wonders : A Conversation with Elaine Ling)

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind. --Henri Frederic Amiel (in Say Wow: A Conversation with Poet Chelan Harkin)