- Annie Dillard
Imperfection is not our personal problem, it is a natural part of existing,
- Tara Brach
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
- Marge Piercy
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
- Audre Lorde
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
Life is the sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.
- Adrienne Rich
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
- Alice Longworth Roosevelt
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
- Ruth Fulton Benedict
[O]ur lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune into them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is going on.
- Jane Wagner
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
