"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)

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. --Albert Einstein (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 (in Untitled)

The millions are awake enough for physical labor. But only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertions, only one in a hundred million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face. --Henry David Thoreau (in Untitled)

This moment is the only one that truly exists. There are no dress rehearsals in life. --Richard Carlson (in Untitled)

With all the will in the world, Diving for dear life, When we could be diving for pearls. --Elvis Costello (in Untitled)

The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the skylife nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness that underlies the whole of life and death. --Sogyal Rinpoche (in Untitled)

All things are connected like the blood that unites us. We did not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. --Chief Seattle (in Untitled)

"Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation." --Robert Assaglioli (in Untitled)

Those things of real worth in life are worth going to any length in love and respect to safeguard. --Julia Butterfly Hill (in What Is Your Tree?)

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." --Henry David Thoreau (in Untitled)

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. --T.S. Eliot (in Untitled)

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. --Robert Louis Stevenson (in Untitled)

What I am doing today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. --Unknown (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)

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

Life has a practice of living you, if you don’t live it. --Philip Larkin (in Untitled)

Sound when stretched is music. Movement when stretched is dance. Mind when stretched is meditation. Life when stretched is celebration. --Ravishankar (in Untitled)

The sculptor, Michelangelo, was once asked how it was that he could create such beautiful works. "It's very simple," he answered. "When I look at a block of marble, I see the sculpture inside it. All I have to do is remove what doesn't belong." The master says: "There is a work of art each of us was destined to create. That is the central point of our life, and -- no matter how we try to deceive ourselves -- we know how important it is to our happiness. Usually, that work of art is covered by years of fears, guilt and indecision. But, if we decide to remove those things that do not belong, if we have no doubt as to our capability, we are capable of going forward with the mission that is our destiny. That is the only way to live with honor." --Paulo Coelho (in Untitled)

Dwelling on past mistakes is a waste of time. If the Ego needs to rectify a misdeed, have it do something that creates good in the present, this will certainly spawn good will for the future and create balance in your life. --Beth Johnson (in Untitled)

No change means death, for life is ever-changing. One should continue to evolve with the growing process. --From the Heart sutra (in Untitled)