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)

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? --Mary Oliver (in Be Vocal in Times of Beauty)

The secret to a long and healthy life is to be stress-free. Be grateful for everything you have, stay away from people who are negative, stay smiling and keep running. --Fauja Singh, 100-yr-old Marathoner (in Secrets of the 100-yr-old Marathoner)

I wouldn't give a nickel for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity. --Albert Einstein (in 8 Approaches to Simplicity)

Life where you're always doing something you love is art. --Leo Babauta (in Toss Productivity Out)

Gross National Product measures everything, except that which makes life worthwhile. --Robert Kennedy (in Economics of Happiness: The New Economy)

Being 'spiritual' simply means being willing to look into the nature of life, to ask questions and to wonder, and to listen. It also means seeing art everywhere. --Quang Ho (in Is This a Business or an Art Project?)

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. --Marge Piercy (in A 15-yr-old Dog's Gift)

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (in An Old Japanese Love Warrior)

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas -- a place where history comes to life. --Norman Cousins (in The Library Rethought)

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will. --Jawaharlal Nehru (in 7 Spiritual Perspectives on Personal Leadership)

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. --Buddha (in The Three Building Blocks of Virtue)

Each resolve to live more kindly loosens restrictive knots of self-interest. Life then flows more freely on its true course. The way an unfettered river runs swift to the ocean. --Daily Good Editors (in A New Kind of New Year's Resolution)

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. --Elie Wiesel (in Mother Robin: Delivering Hope & Babies)

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. --Henry David Thoreau (in Life Is Easy ...When You Simplify)

Life is no "brief candle" to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. --George Bernard Shaw (in Inside Tim Tebow's World of Kindness)

Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one. --Eknath Easwaran (in Man Builds Fairy Tale Home -- For $4700)

There is nothing still. Life is never still. No plant, no animal no river. Can we think of Nature as a metaphor and keep ourselves constantly evolving? --Anil Gupta (in Redefining What it Means to Grow)

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows. --Nisargadatta Maharaj (in Valentine's Day Wisdom)

When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach]. --Jaggi Vasudev (in High Schooler Devises Potential Cancer Cure )

Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in 7 Habits of Mindful Eating)

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life. -- Sr. Mary Rose McGeady (in The Kindness Boomerang)

A different language is a different vision of life. --Federico Fellini (in How Language Enabled Innovation and Evolution)

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded --Ralph Waldo Emerson (in Office Workers Raise 5 Day Old Kitten)

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. --K.T. Jong (in How to Be Alone)

Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going. --Ayya Khema (in Broken Bodies, Broken Minds, Amazing Spirits)

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. --Alan Chadwick (in Seeing in the Dark)

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (in From Selling to Serving)

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. --Adrienne Rich (in Five Poverty-fighting Women to Watch)

This mind-and-body is the vessel of my life. I want to know it with the same organic immersion that sets a snow goose flying ten thousand miles every winter and spring. --Paul R. Fleischman (in Meditation: A Compass and a Path)

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe to match your nature with Nature. --Joseph Campbell (in 20 Amazing Photos From Outer Space)