Life Quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen

Cancer changes your whole life.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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

— Rachel Naomi Remen

People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Those who dont love themselves as they are rarely love life either.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear.…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Wisdom comes most easily to those who have the courage to embrace life without judgment and are willing to not know, sometimes…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“Perhaps real wisdom lies in not seeking answers at all. Any answer we find will not be true for long. An answer…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix,…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“All life has in it the dimension of the Unknown; it is a thing forever unfolding. It seems important to consider the…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Perhaps we can only truly serve those we are willing to touch, not only with our hands but with our hearts and…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“As a physician, I was trained to deal with uncertainty as aggressively as I dealt with disease itself. The unknown was the…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“: Whether we are aware of it or not, we will refine the quality of our humanity throughout the course of our…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“Human being" is more a verb than a noun. Each of us is unfinished, a work in progress. Perhaps it would be…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

There are few master teachers in life. ... But there are many who can listen to life so well that they can…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“Those who don't love themselves as they are rarely love life as it is either. Most people have come to prefer certain…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Befriending the life in others is sometimes a complex matter. There are times when we offer our strength and protection, but these…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“The marks life leaves on everything it touches transform perfection into wholeness. Older, wiser cultures choose to claim this wholeness in the…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

People are waking up in their homes - without conferences. They're waking up because life is waking them up, not because of…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. Life asks of us the same thing we have been asked in…

— Rachel Naomi Remen