Live Life to the Fullest

 "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”

- Jean de La Fontaine

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

- Carl Jung

“It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.”

- S. I. Hayakawa

“The longer I love, the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“You cannot dream yourself into a character. You must hammer and forge yourself one.”

- James A. Froude

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”

- George Moore

"The only journey is the journey within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”

- Oscar Wilde

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

- Muhammad Ali

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."    

- Henry David Thoreau

"All the wonders you seek are within yourself."

- Thomas Browne

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”

- Buddha

“A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.”

- La Rochefoucauld

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

- Carl Jung

"To find yourself, think for yourself."    

- Socrates

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

- Mahatma Gandhi

“All serious daring starts from within.” 

- Eudora Welty

"Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be."

- Robert Brault

"The self is not something one finds. It is something one creates."

- Thomas Szasz

"You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow."

- Charles De Lint

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."

- Alan Alda

"Don't worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself."

- Jason Evert

"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."

- Dr. Alexis Carrel

"Whatever it takes to find the real you, don't be daunted if the rest of the world looks on in shock."

- Stephen Richards

"I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself."

-James Baldwin

"All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."

- James Thurber

"You've got to know yourself, so you can at last be yourself."

- D. H. Lawrence

"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born."

- Antoine de 
Saint-Exupéry

"Sometimes we must lose ourselves to find ourselves."     

- Sonny Long

"In search of my mother's garden, I found my own."

- Alice Walker

"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."  

- Epictetus

"You will never find yourself until you face the truth."  

- Pearl Bailey

"We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too."    

- Kristin Martz

"Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF."

- Mandy Hale

"Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music."

- Mac Anderson

"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet"

- Charles Caleb Colton

"No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."

- Thomas Mann

"He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is wise."

- Lao-tzu

"The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away."

 - Leland Val Van de Wall

"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."

- Anna Quindlen

"Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark."

- Zen Proverb

"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us, which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

- George Eliot

"We are the products of editing, rather than authorship."

- George Wald

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."

- Nelson Mandela

"Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way."

- Robert Brault

"Truth hurts — not the searching after; the running from!"

- John Eyberg

"When your heart speaks, take good notes."

- Judith Campbell

"What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul."

- Victor Hugo

"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Decorate yourself from the inside out."

- Terri Guillemets

"Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.” 

- Richard Dawkins

“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.” 

- Katharine Hepburn

"Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination."

- Swami Sivananda

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet."

- James Openheim

"Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow."

- Helen Keller

"Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for."   

- Immanuel Kant

"Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy."

- Kamand Kojouri

"Let your past go, and follow your bliss just for the health of it.”

- Dr. Christiane Northrup

"Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”

- Joseph Campbell

“If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you."

- Joseph Campbell

"There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot."

- Aristotle

"Bliss is not a feeling but a state of being. In the state of bliss, everything is loved."

- Deepak Chopra

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

- Charles H. Spurgeon

"Bliss can only come through gratitude, only through enlarging your heart with gratitude. Bliss is the reward of gratitude, the gratitude which is not just worldly or just spoken lip service, but is from the heart, the gratitude of the heart."

- Nirmala Srivastava

"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss."

- Alexandre Dumas

"Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss."

- Miguel Angel Ruiz

"Happiness without reason is bliss."

- Tapan Ghosh

"Happiness is not in things. It is in you."

- Robert Holden

"Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you."

- Deb Caletti

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."

- Joseph Campbell

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved... loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

- Victor Hugo

"Sometimes bliss can only be found in the serenity of darkness."

- Saim A. Cheeda

"Happiness is a choice, a repetitive one."

- Akilnathan Logeswaran

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree."

- Emily Bronte

"Once bliss becomes normal, it's no longer bliss, it's just peace."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Now a soft kiss. Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss."

- John Keats

"If you want to reach a state of bliss,  make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge."

- Deepak Chopra

"Creation is a sustained period of bliss."

- Alice Walker

"At the darkest moment comes the light."

- Joseph Campbell

"In life's work, bliss and sacrifice are two sides of the same coin, complementary opposites."

- Laurence Boldt

"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss. Volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."

- George Santayana

"Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are."

- Marianne Williamson

"Bliss is that deep, fulfilling, sustainable, driving need you have. That thing that is the true "you." Your bliss is your life's purpose. Your bliss gives your otherwise meaningless life meaning. When you are following your bliss you are powerful and empowered. You are focused and the universe is waiting to help you."

- Angie Karan

"Truth brings bliss, truth brings celebration."

- Rajneesh

"Happiness cannot be far behind a grateful mind, heart and a peaceful mind."

- Anonymous

"Happiness is there when you express kindness, compassion, and unconditional love and fill yourself with bliss and joy."   

- Debasish Mridha

"Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss."

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.” 

- Joseph Campbell

"Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps."

- Sharon Draper

"It's ever so much more satisfying to get into a blissful place and attract a blissful person and live blissfully hereafter than to be in a negative place and attract a negative partner and then try to get happy from that negative place."

- Esther Hicks

“You can’t expect to move forward if your emergency break is on.” 

- Angela Cecilia

“Paradise is open to all kind hearts.”

- Pierre Jean de Beranger

“Never forget the importance of living with unbridled exhilaration.”

- Robin Sharma

“Never forget the importance of living with unbridled exhilaration.”

- Robin Sharma

"Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real."

- Deepak Chopra

"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss."

- Alexandre Dumas

"Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion."

- Philip Wylie

"What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty."

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"The weak have remedies, the wise have joys. Superior wisdom is superior bliss."

- Edward Young

"When you are aligned with the truth of who you truly are, then you experience bliss."

- Vivian Amis

"Life in itself is an empty canvas. It becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory."

- Rajneesh

"Just as a mountain of snow is nothing but water, so also the whole universe is nothing but bliss."

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

"Follow your bliss and let the magic of life happen."

- Janelle Jalbert

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."

- Omar Khayyam

"Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy — you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body."

- Esther Hicks

"You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss."

- James Hillman

“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” 

- Anne Frank

"Bliss cannot be found by remembering the past or anticipating the future."

- Deepak Chopra

"There's no magic bullet. There's no pill that you take that makes everything great and makes you happy all the time. I'm letting go of those expectations, and that's opening me up to moments of transcendent bliss."

- Anne Hathaway

"Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss."

- Rajneesh

"Life can be dangerous — just let it be! When we shake off what we perceive as boundaries, that is where the bliss really is."

- Ann Wilson

"Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss."

- Joseph Campbell

"Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving."

- Brandon Boyd

"Find your bliss. Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it."

- Leonard Nimoy

"Every moment is an eternity in itself. Bliss is the present moment and each and everyone of us needs to understand this."

- Wayne Dyer

"Decorum, that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"When we follow our bliss, we are met by a thousand unseen helping hands."

- Joseph Campbell

"Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man can't begin to approach."

- George Carlin

"There is always a risk to follow your bliss, a price to pursue your passion."

- James Arthur Ray

"If you want to be happy, be."

- Leo Tolstoy

"When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss."

- Robert Thurman

"Achieving your heart’s desires is the key to living a life of bliss."

- Steven Redhead

"Sometimes we forget to be grateful until we survive a trauma...Part of the journey toward joy involves not waiting around for trouble, but being continuously aware of our blessings."

- Charlotte Sophia Kasl

"One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness."

- Meher Baba

“Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.”

- Joseph Campbell

"To live in infinite bliss, practice mindfulness and live in the moment."

- Debasish Mridha

“Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.”

- Elizabeth Taylor

"Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God."

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.”

- Anonymous

"Happiness that comes and never leaves; it is called the bliss of the soul."

- Dada Bhagwan

"Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful."

- Osho

"Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted."

- Deepak Chopra

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.” 

- John Lennon

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” 

- Herman Melville

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone — we find it with another.” 

- Thomas Merton

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” 

- John Joseph Powell

"We get upset at other people because they don’t meet our ideals of how they should act. Instead, try accepting them for who they are, and recognizing that, like you, they’re imperfect and seeking happiness and struggling with finding happiness.”

- Leo Babauta

“Love is not the perfect match. Love is the connection between two people.” 

- Unarine Ramaru

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” 

- Herman Melville

“Healing yourself is connected with healing others.”

- Yoko Ono

“There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is ‘Where am I going?’ and the second is ‘Who will go with me?’”

-  Howard Thurman

“In everybody’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner fire.”

- Albert Schweitzer

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” 

- John Lennon

“Maybe we are not here to see each other but to see each other through.”

- Anonymous

“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.”

-  Margaret J. Wheatley

"Bliss needs to be shared. It exists only in sharing."

- Rajneesh

“It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.” 

- Ann Beattie

“Our souls yearn for connection with all souls. There are people we think we prefer and others we don’t, but half the time that’s a lie: We tell ourselves the fairy tale of our hatreds out of fear, but we revisit that tale as it suits us. Deep down, we’d love to love and be loved by all.” 

- Alexandra Katehakis

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

- John Muir

“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All things are connected like the blood that unites us. We do not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.”

- Chief Seattle

“The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him.” 

- Albert Camus

“This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.” 

- Ellen Hopkins

“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.” 

- Goethe

“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” 

- William James

“We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.” 

- Emilio Estevez

“Intimacy is not purely physical. It's the act of connecting with someone so deeply, you feel like you can see into their soul.” 

- Reshall Varsos

“Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.” 

- Sharon Salzberg

“Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.” 

- Deborah Day

“Connecting our hearts through love yields a nectar so sweet we are forever full.” 

- Amy Leigh Mercree

"I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”

- Brené Brown

"Creative people have no barriers. Ultimately, it's connecting with human beings. There's just one planet. I don't see it as different countries."

- Aamir Khan

“Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.” 

- Vera Nazarian

"I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great humility and respect.”

- David Suzuki

“The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you brought to other people’s lives that you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.”

- Harold Kushner

“Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.”

- Aaron D. O'Connell

“All is connected. No one thing can change by itself.”

- Paul Hawken

“I am a part of all that I have met.”

- Lord Tennyson 

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Connection doesn't care about the laws of the land. Your soul will be pulled to the place it belongs."

- Anonymous

“Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.”

- Sean Stephenson

“Think back to the most important experiences of your life, the highest highs, the greatest victories, the most daunting obstacles overcome. How many happened to you alone? I bet there are very few.”

- John C. Maxwell

"My heart is not captured easily. I am disinterested in small talk, disillusioned with love, and too focused on my dreams and aspirations to lend anybody my attention for long."

- Beau Taplin

“Carve your name on hearts and not on marble.”

- Charles Spurgeon

"Start hanging out with people who see limitless possibility as the reality.  Surround yourself with people who act on their big ideas, who take action on making positive change in the world and who see nothing as out of their reach.”

- Jen Sincero

“Perhaps the secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.”

- Rachel Naomi Remen

"Happiness is only real when shared.”

- Chris McCandless

"It takes a village to raise a child."

- African Proverb

"Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people."

- Thomas Horn

“Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.”

- Margaret J. Wheatley

"Connection starves suspicion."  

- Fawn Weaver

"Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others."

- Harriet Goldhor Lerner

“ We are earth people on a spiritual journey to the stars. Our quest, our earth walk, is to look within, to know who we are, to see that we are connected to all things, that there is no separation, only in the mind.”

- Lakota Seer

 “There is simply no pill that can replace human connection. There is no pharmacy that can fill the need for compassionate interaction with others. There is no panacea. The answer to human suffering is both within us and between us."

 Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

"Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand, even in dreams."

- Mitch Albom