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)

A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank...but the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child --Forest Witcraft (in Mama Hill: A Gang's Worst Nightmare)

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it. --Gautama Buddha (in Ten Principles Of Purpose)

Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up. --Steve Maroboli (in Why Giving Thanks In Hard Times Helps)

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. --William Wordsworth (in Find Your Moment of Obligation)

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. --Melody Beattie (in What Is Gratitude?)

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. --Winston Churchill (in A Tea Shop Making A Difference)

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. --Jennifer James (in Dad & Daughter: The Unstoppable Kindness Duo)

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment. ---Deepak Chopra- (in Balancing the Brain Toward Joy)

Perfect imperfection is a beautiful sight to behold. In fact, it can change the way you look at life... if you simply let it. ---Rachel Macy Stafford- (in Today I Lived And You Did Too)

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. --Mark Twain (in Death Cafe: Talking Tea and Mortality)