Motivational Poem -
Life Is....
by Mother Teresa

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it.

Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.

Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.

Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Life is life, fight for it.

"Have you ever noticed
a tree standing naked against the sky,
How beautiful it is?
All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness
There is a poem, there is a song.
Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring.
When the spring comes,
it again fills the tree with
The music of many leaves,
Which in due season fall and are blown away.
And this is the way of life."

From Darkness to Light: Poems and Parables (The Collected Works of Krishnamurti) by Krishnamurti

“Life, in every condition can be lived in freedom and joy, provided the soul within remains unattached to external forms of life.”

- Swami Ramdas
The Essential Swami Ramdas (Library of Perennial Philosophy)

Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
Winging wildly across the white
Orchards and dark-green fields; on - on - and out of sight.

Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted;
And beauty came like the setting sun:
My heart was shaken with tears; and horror
Drifted away ... O, but Everyone
Was a bird; and the song was wordless;
the singing will never be done.

-- Siegfried Sassoon

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Away! the great life calls; I leave
For Beauty, Beauty's rarest flower.

~A.E.



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'The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware,
joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.'
~Henry Miller

I live my life in glowing orbits
which move out over the things of the world.
And I have been circling for thousands of years,
And I still don’t know if I’m a falcon,
or a storm, or a great song. — Rainer Maria Rilke

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"My teaching is not the truth; it is only the finger pointing to the Moon. If you think my finger is the Moon, you are misled. ... Truth is not contained in concepts and ideologies; truth can only be found in life. Holy Scriptures are only the residues... When you strike a match and the flame is created, the flame consumes the match. Manifest Truth burns. Buddha said the raft is not the shore; it is only an instrument to reach the shore. Teaching is like the raft."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh