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)

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort. --Sir Humphry Davy (in Untitled)

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

You have to actually touch life at a point where nobody has touched it before. Nobody can teach you that. --U. G. Krishnamurti (in Untitled)

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." --William James (in Untitled)

Moment after moment after moment, life keeps slipping by, Make use of every moment; the past moment will never come again. --S.N.Goenka (in Untitled)

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey. --Harold V. Merlchert (in Untitled)

Life.... It is the flash of a firefly in the night, the breath of a buffalo in the winter. It is the little shadow, which runs across the grass, and loses itself in the sunset.... --Crowfoot (Blackfeet Elder) (in Untitled)

There is more to life than increasing its speed. --Gandhi (in Untitled)

Our life is what our thoughts make it. --Marcus Aurelius Antonius (in Untitled)

When our fears have been serialized, our creativity censured, our ideas "marketplaced," our rights sold, our intelligence sloganized, our strength downsized, our privacy auctioned; when the theatricality, the entertainment value, the marketing of life is complete, we will find ourselves living not in a nation but in a consortium of industries, and wholly unintelligible to ourselves except for what we see as through a screen darkly. --Toni Morrison (in Untitled)

Be life-oriented -- not book-oriented, not quotation-oriented nor campaign-oriented. --Shibendu Lahiri (in Untitled)

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die -- whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness. -Gilda Radner --Gilda Radner (in Untitled)

If life serves you a lemon, make lemonade. --Author Unknown (heard at SF airport) (in Untitled)

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. --Chief Seattle (in Untitled)

Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase: REVERENCE FOR LIFE. --Albert Schweitzer (in Untitled)

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. --Rose Kennedy (in Untitled)

People say that what we're seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. --Joseph Campbell (in Untitled)

If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. --Joseph Campbell (in Untitled)

I can let my life pass me by Or I can get down and try Work it all out this lifetime Work it all out this time. --Maxwell (in Untitled)

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. --Richard Bach (in Lungs of a Smoker)