The way to know life is to love many things.

Love at every opportunity and your body will live forever. P.S. Every moment is an opportunity.

Grace Happens

You've heard "Don't believe everything you read." Here are some useful spinoffs: Don't believe everything you think. Don't believe everything you tell yourself. And most especially, don't believe everything you feel.

We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive someone of their natural liberty upon the supposition they might abuse it. [gender-netural wording added.]

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

The way out is the way in.

I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me. Probable source: American poet Robert Frost who said what Tsuya posted below in her comment. And Howard Nemerov said the same thing in something he wrote, too. http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42777/

"I am the Lover. I am the Beloved. I am the Loving. I am the Love."

Maybe Rumi said something like this. I don't recall. The more I contemplate this quote, the more profound it becomes as an experience. I have been using and contemplating it for several years. It conveys to me that Love is inherent in the nature of Reality, and for me there is no excuse for feeling lonely or unloved.