life..as we know it...

just want to share these quotes that my good friend, Pia has sent on my inbox...

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

The most decisive actions of our life ... are most often unconsidered actions.

Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.
"Played by Patrick Stewart, from the film "Star Trek: Generations"

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.