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All men and woman are born of woman

118-120

VICTOR HUGO:

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

VIRGINIA SATIR:

Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.

WALLACE STEGNER:

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

112-117

THOMAS JEFFERSON:

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

TOM LEHRER:

Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

TONI MORRISON:

Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

UNKNOWN:

Life would be much easier if I had the source code.

URSULA K. LEGUIN:

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

VICTOR FRANKL:

If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.

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."

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering.

107-111

SOPHIA LYON FAHS:

Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.

STEPHEN COVEY:

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

THEODORE RUBIN:

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

THICH NHAT HANH:

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

THOMAS F. HEALEY:

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.

When Death claims the light of my brow,

No flowers of life will cheer me: instead

You may give me my roses now!

100-106

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON:

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

ROY H. WILLIAMS:

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

SARAH BAN BREATHNACH:

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

SARAH BERNHARDT:

Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

SEAN O'CASEY:

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

SENECA:

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

SHARON WELCH:

Injustice can be eliminated, but human conflicts and natural limitations cannot be removed. The conflicts of social life and the limitations of nature cannot be controlled or transcended. They can, however, be endured and survived. It is possible for there to be a dance with life, a creative response to its intrinsic limits and challenges ... [A Feminist Ethic of Risk]