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• Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. ~Mel Brooks
  
  
• Unbeing dead isn't being alive. ~e.e. cummings
  
  
• When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash - at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance. ~Thomas Merton
  
  
• Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ~Brendan Gill
  
  
• Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable. ~Francis Ponge
  
  
• A hunter of shadows, himself a shade. ~Homer
  
  
• The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. ~Susan Sontag
  
  
• Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous. ~John Jay Chapman
  
  
• My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. ~Tom Stoppard
  
  
• If you come to a fork in the road, take it. ~Yogi Berra
  
  
• I used to be afraid of pain, until I discovered that it is intrinsic to pleasure. Pleasure is woven through with pain, in a marvelous tapestry. We live with the weavings, and in between darkness and light. ~ Sark
  
  
• Life: Never take it personally. ~ Stuart Wilde
  
  

• Do not take a step on the path of love without a guide. I have tried it one hundred times and failed. ~Hafiz
  
  

• Don’t complain, don’t explain ~Wayne Dyer
  
  

• Don't just do something; SIT THERE... ~Sylvia Boorstein
  
  
• Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
  
  
• The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment. ~ Sir Rabindranath Tagore