Life Unscripted Blog

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. — Havelock Ellis

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. — Zen

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? — Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! — Gail Sheehy

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night. — Terri Guillemets

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. — Friedrich Nietzche

True friends stab you in the front. — Oscar Wilde

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become. — Charles DuBois


What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. — Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Open your eyes. Open your mind. Open your heart. — Stacy Hess

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. — Baba Ram Dass

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer. — Jim Carrey

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. — Amiel, Journal, 17 December 1856

I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.
 — Rumi

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. — George Bernard Shaw

Do Be Do Be Do — Amit Goswami (and Frank Sinatra)

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. — Roger Miller


We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.
~ — W.H. Auden

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. — Oscar Wilde

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. — Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"

By daily dying I have come to be. — Theodore Roethke

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. — Albert Camus

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. — Attributed to Howard Thurman


Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. — Ludwig Börne

Great Doubt, Great Awakening,
Little Doubt, Little Awakening,
No Doubt, No Awakening.


Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. — Hans Christian Anderson

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. — Andre Gide

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. — Aleister Crowley, Book of Lies

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation. — Robert Brault

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. — Terry Josephson


All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. — Amelia Barr

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. — John Burroughs