One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion --Simone De Beauvoir (in The Story of Bopsy: The Very First Make-a-Wish Kid)

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. --Pablo Picasso (in Generosity: The Most Powerful Animating Force of Art)

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive. --Albert Schweitzer (in 8 Great Writers On Why Reverence Matters)

It can hurt to go through life with your heart open, but not as much as it does to go through life with your heart closed. --Jim Doty (in What Mindfulness is Missing)

Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast. --William Shakespeare (in How Sleep Resets the Brain's Emotional Compass)

The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart. --Annie Dillard (in Annie Dillard: On Seeing)

Do every act of your life as though it is the last act of your life. --Marcus Aurelius (in Blueberries and the Art of Being Present)

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. --Rabindranath Tagore (in He Quit His Corporate Job to Help His City's Needy)

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary it means accepting it as it comes...To accept is to say yes to life in its entirety. --Paul Tournier (in Billy Barr: The Snow Guardian)

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language. --Jason Mraz (in Belonging Creates & Undoes Us Both)

The meaning of life is to give life meaning. --Viktor Frankl (in Viktor Frankl & the Search for Meaning)

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. --Pablo Picasso (in Returning the Gift)

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them. --Atul Gawande (in Atul Gawande: What Matters in the End)

Water is life. Without water there could be no life. --Justin Rowland, Wounded Knee (in Cheryl Angel: Water Is Life)

Movement is life; without movement life is unthinkable --Moshe Feldenkrais (in Moshe Feldenkrais: Learn to Learn)

Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.
--Jeff Bridges (in Rachel Callender Sees Superpowers)

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. --Helen Keller (in Heroines of Health)

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. --Rabindranath Tagore (in Mercy Beyond Borders)

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. --Parker Palmer (in Herd: A Spiritual Journey)

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. --Rabindranath Tagore (in She Transformed Her Trauma into a Path of Service)

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more the good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude. --Etty Hillesum (in Living Gratefully in the Time of Corona Virus)

Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think 'My life will be upside down' don't worry. How do you know down is not better than upside? --Shams of Tabriz (in 16 Teachings from COVID-19)

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. --George Washington Carver (in People Helped You Whether You Knew It Or Not)

I learned in that moment that when I live in that kind of connection, I get to speak for Life with all of my life. --Mark Dubois (in The Voice of the River)

Life in our universe is a flash in the pan, a few moments in the vast unfolding of time and space in the cosmos...A realization of the scarcity of life makes me feel some ineffable connection to other living things. --Alan Lightman (in Probable Impossibilities)

Our longings are a unique manifestation of the universe's longings. In listening to the depths of life, within our lives and within every life, we will hear the longings of the One that are deeper than the fears that divide us. --John Philip Newell (in Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul)

I am life which wills to live, and I exist in the midst of life which wills to live. --Albert Schweitzer (in Nature is a Jazz Band, Not a Machine)

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. --Angela Schwindt (in Rachel Callander Sees Superpowers)

Of course the gift to be cherished most of all is that of life itself. One's work should be a salute to life. --Pablo Casals (in Legendary Cellist Pablo Casals, at Age 93, on Creative Vitality )

If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. --Kahlil Gibran (in 17 Things I Would Do Differently)

I felt a complete willingness, without any reservations, to give my life -- to dedicate my
life -- to service. --Peace Pilgrim (in Peace Pilgrim: A Life of Service)

The great beauty of life is its mystery, the inability to know what course our life will take, and diligently work to transmute into our final form based upon a lifetime of constant discovery and enterprising effort. --Kilroy J. Oldster (in You Don't Know What Your Future Self Wants)

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don't have a life. You are life. --Eckhart Tolle (in Your Gift to Nature)

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace. --Peace Pilgrim (in How to Become a 100 Percenter)

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. --Dietrich Bonhoeffer (in Grateful: A Love Song to the World)

The cost of doing anything is life because our time, our energy, our attention, all of those things are finite. Our choice to do anything has a cost, and that cost is our life. --Adii Pienaar (in What Should I Do Today?)

We can find awe, then, in eight wonders of life: moral beauty, collective effervescence, nature, music, visual design, spirituality and religion, life and death, and epiphany. --Dacher Keltner (in Exploring the Science of Everyday Wonder)

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth. --Zhuangzi (in Bringing France’s Waste Prevention Plan to Life)

When I really hear someone it puts me in touch with him. It enriches my life. It is through hearing people that I have learned all that I know about individuals, about personality, about psychotherapy, and about interpersonal relationships. --Carl Rogers (in Untitled)

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. --Buddha (in Untitled)

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." --Norman MacFinan (in Untitled)

"The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality." --John Quincy Adams (in Untitled)

“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.” --Albert Einstein (in Untitled)

I will tell you the meaning of your life here. It is to humanize the earth. And what is it to humanize the earth? It is to surpass pain and suffering; it is to learn without limits; it is to love the reality you build. --SILO (in Untitled)

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. --Henry Drummond (in Untitled)

As you grind the sandalwood hard, it gives out sweet fragrance; as you crush the sugarcane more, it yields more and more sweet juice; as you heat the gold more, its sheen and brightness increases. Likewise, when a virtuousperson passes through the vicissitudes of life, his nobility shines with added brilliance. --Sanskrit Verse (in Untitled)

You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours... Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. --Black Elk, Oglala (in Untitled)

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. --Robert Frost (in Untitled)

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all. --Helen Keller (in Untitled)

The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astir on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shining pool - this, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character. --Ohiyesa, Wahpeton Santee Sioux (in Untitled)