"Life is raw material.
We are artisans.
We can sculpt our existence
into something beautiful,
or debase it into ugliness.
It's in our hands."
-Cathy Better

"On life's journey faith is nourishment,
virtuous deeds are a shelter,
wisdom is the light by day
and right mindfulness
is the protection by night.
If a man lives a pure life,
nothing can destroy him."
-Buddha

"Life loves to be
taken by the lapel and told:
I'm with you kid. Let's go."
-Maya Angelou

"Your life and my life flow into
each other as wave flows into wave,
and unless there is peace and joy
and freedom for you there can be no
real peace or joy or freedom for me.
To see reality..not as we expect
it to be but as it is..is to see
that unless we live for each other
and in and through each other, we do
not really live very satisfactorily;
that there can really be life only where
there really is, in just this sense, love."
-Frederick Buechner

"The tragedy of life is
not so much what men suffer,
but rather what they miss."
-Thomas Carlyle

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across
the grass and loses itself in the sunset."
-Crowfoot

"Every man's life is a fairy tale
written by God's finger."
~Hans Christian Anderson