Experiment with this mental model: It is my duty and privilege to be of service. I will do whatever I can to make life easier for all people who cross my path. --Srikumar Rao (in Happiness At Work)

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those. --Michael Nolan (in Best Career Advice: Take Poetry)

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it --Marcus Aurelius (in The Sound of One Hand Clapping)

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. --Joseph Campbell (in An Artist's Life)

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love. --William Wordsworth (in The Little Things)

You must trust and believe in people, or life becomes impossible. --Anton Chekhov (in Pay What You Want)

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. --Winston Churchill (in Operation Smile!)

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships. --Anthony Robbins (in Longevity in Relationships: 10 Tips)

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. --Buddha (in Sixth-Grade Philanthropists)

The word 'energy' incidentally equates with the Greek word for 'challenge.' I think there is much to learn in thinking of our federal energy problem in that light. Further, it is important for us to think of energy in terms of a gift of life. --Thomas Carr (in Save Energy by Breathing)

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 What They Don't Teach in Business School)

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. --David Henry Thoreau (in The Beggar Who Gives Alms)

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. --Buddha (in A Yogi Stumps Science)

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. --Confucius (in Entrepreneur of Small Things)

You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle. --Albert Einstein (in A Course in Miracles)

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. --Leo F. Buscaglia (in Secret Agent of Kindness)

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. --Joseph Addison (in Ice Cream Truck of the Digital Age)

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. --Norman Cousins (in How to Live and Die)

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. --Charles Dudley Warner (in But Will It Make You Happy?)

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. --Anton Chekhov (in The Power of Trust)

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. --Michael Jordan (in Embracing Imperfection)

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. --Buddha (in A Law for Cooperation)

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. --Buddha (in 9/11 Day of Service)

The Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children...it does not include the beauty of our poetry...in short, it measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile. --Robert F. Kennedy (in The Happy Planet Index)

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance. --Morgan Freeman (in Doing Silence)

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. --W. Clement Stone (in Turning Values into Action)

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. --Theodore Roosevelt (in The Art of Motivating Employees)

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. --Henry Miller (in 100-Year-Old Doctor Still Making Rounds)

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. --Christopher Reeve (in A Garden For Everybody)

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? --Martin Luther King, Jr. (in Why Social Value is Good for Business)

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (in Not Your Grandfather's Retirement)

The greatest pleasure in life, is doing the things people say we cannot do. --Walter Bagehot (in Runner Crawls to a Finish For Her Coach)

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. --Robert A. Heinlein (in 5 Ways Giving is Good for You)

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. --Lin Yutang (in An Academic Sparks Giving to Charity)

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one. --Joesph Campell (in Baby Reunited with Doctor Who Saved Her)

To touch can be to give life. --Michelangelo (in The Power of Touch)

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center. --Seamus Heaney (in From Linda to Chad to Michael to You)

Those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. --Tony Robbins (in Nine-year-old Saves Her Sister's life)

Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use. --Schultz (in 72 Hours to Transform Your City)

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. --Buddha (in The Sharing Economy Emerges)

If you can change your mind, you can change your life. --William James (in How We Can Change Our Minds)

Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence. --Hazrat Inayat Khan (in Emotional Lives of Animals)

There's an analog for this in life, where disparate events, spread across years, come together to reveal the path forward. It goes by a nicer name, though: serendipity. --Robert Lang (in Genius of the Fold)

Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage. --Anais Nin (in How One Teenager Used Her Life Savings)

Life has beauty and a joy that transcends all the darkness that surrounds us, that something ineffable lives beyond the ordinary affairs of the day, and that without this mystery our lives would not be worth living. --Kent Nerbern (in Cup of Compassion and Grandma's Beautiful Hat)

The most important lessons in life can never be expressed in black and white, but must be experienced. Experience is the greatest teacher. --Benny Lewis (in 29 Lessons From Travelling the World)

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. --Elbert Hubbard (in The 'Before I Die' Project)

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. --Barry Lopez (in Barry Lopez: A Sense of Reverence for Life)

True life is lived when tiny changes occur. --Leo Tolstoy (in Planning & Other Paths To Less Stress)

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. --Denis Waitley (in The Dumpster)