Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. --Charles M. Schulz (in 10 Keys To Happier Living)

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. --Plato (in Henry, an iPod and Music's Alchemy)

All of the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms. --Blaise Pascal (in Meditating with Dinosaurs ... Really?)

Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future. --Terry Tempest Williams (in What A Plant Knows)

Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are. --Martin Seligman (in The Importance of Learned Optimism)

There is more to life than increasing its speed. --Mohandas K. Gandhi (in Starting A Slow Story Movement)

A different language is a different vision of life. --Federico Fellini (in Vanishing Voices: The World's Endangered Languages)

In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you. --Cory Booker (in A Conspiracy of Love: Stanford Graduation Speech)

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is. --Saul Bellow (in Guerilla Gardener Plants Joy in Potholes)

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it. --Charles Eisenstein (in The Spirit of Gift)

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in The Literary Physician & How Stories Heal)

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. --Mary Oliver (in What I Learned From 30 Years Of Watching A River)

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. --Ansel Adams (in The Point of Being Alive)

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. --Pablo Casals (in One Hat, One Heart)

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. --David Brower (in New Zealand's River That Is A Person)

Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty. --Patch Adams (in Your Health Is Bigger Than Your Body)

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (in Somebody Tagged Me!)

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. --Confucius (in Solving Gen Y's Passion Problem)

Our life is composed greatly from dreams from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. --Anais Nin (in A Weaver's Reflections)

Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong. Be prepared every day to try to do some good. --Nicholas Winton (in The 29-Year-Old Stockbroker Who Saved 699 Lives)

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. --Denis Waitley (in Throw Your Life a Curve)

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. --Joseph Campbell (in The Man Who Left Hollywood For His True Calling)

The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. --Wendell Berry (in Soil, Soul and Society)

Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life -- not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving -- not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness -- not by our seeming greatness. --William Arthur Ward (in Untrack: Letting Go of the Stress of Measuring)

And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life. --Robert Penn Warren (in The Benefits of Poetry for Professionals)

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

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain. --Emily Dickinson (in My Brother & The Power of Milk Moments)

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way. --John Muir (in The Kindness of Beasts)

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. --David Brower (in Are You Building Your Legacy?)

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment --Eckhart Tolle (in Stop Focusing On Your Performance)

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. --Eddie Cantor (in The Art of Slowing Down)

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way. --John Muir (in The Kindness of Beasts)

A great library provides. It is enmeshed in the life of a community in a way that makes it indispensable. A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need. --Vicki Myron (in The Library Cat Who Touched The World)

If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider. --Jules Renard (in What Signs Are You Not Seeing?)

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. --Storm Jameson (in Six Ways to Sustainable Happiness)

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself. --Lewis B. Smedes, in 'Forgive and Forget' (in The Stubborn Gladness of Elizabeth Gilbert)

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. --Oscar Wilde (in The Guardian of Golden Gate)

Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion. --Sharon Salzberg (in A Volcanic Eruption of Kindness)

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. --Ursula Le Guin (in The Persuasive Power of Uncertainty)

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. --Alfred Lord Tennyson (in Debunking the Myths of Happiness)

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. --Albert Einstein (in The Revolutionary Cardboard Bicycle)

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in. --Morrie Schwartz (in Why Do We Not Ask For Help?)

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. --Rachel Carson (in 11 Places So Beautiful It's Hard to Believe They Exist!)

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life. --Paul Theroux (in A Poem of Kindness That Traveled The World)

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. --Haruki Murakami (in The Night I Died)

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things. --Nicholas Sparks (in Elemental: Water, Film & the Human Spirit)

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. --Studs Terkel (in What Makes Us Feel Good About Our Work)

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
--Victor Frankl (in 5 Life Lessons From 56 Up)

True life is lived when tiny changes occur. --Leo Tolstoy (in 5 Tips for Integrating Mindfulness In Daily Life)

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people . --Albert Einstein (in 7 Billion Others)