"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
- Vincent van Gogh
"Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope."
- Tom Head
"Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breathtaking moments."
- Michael Vance
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."
- Bernice Johnson Reagon
"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired."
- Erik H. Erikson
"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."
- Lord Byron
"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]
- Sharon Welch
