And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it...

Don’t seek that all that comes about should come about as you wish, but wish that everything that comes about should come about just as it does, and then you’ll have a calm and happy life.

And if you can’t make your life as you’d wish it,
try, at the very least, to accomplish this much:
do not make it less than what it already is
by mixing too excessively with the masses,
by hanging around and endlessly chattering.

Don’t cheapen your life by parading it around,
hauling it everywhere and laying it out there
for the dreary humbug of familiars and fellowship,
until it comes to feel like a curious dead weight.

Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)

The truth is, you can’t sustainably force life. You must let what is meant to be, unfold. You must do what feels good and makes you come alive. That’s how you thrive.

Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence and enjoy it to the full.

In the time of your life, live — -so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for andy life your life touches.

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding. My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Third: live together as long as you feel truly happy. Life is too short to be lived badly.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

You should be careful, therefore, to live your life fully, and marriage and children and grandchildren, and all the trouble and heartbreak that accompanies all of that, is much of what life has to offer. Miss it at your great peril.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.