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)

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. --Oscar Wilde (in Wearing The Be Love Sign)

May you live all the days of your life. --Jonathan Swift (in Life, Love & Uncle Don's Last Visit)

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. --Confucius (in The Profound Act Of Talking To Each Other)

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. --Dale Carnegie (in Cancelled Wedding Turned Feast for the Homeless)

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. --Albert Schweitzer (in Cultivating Compassion)

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. --Leo Tolstoy (in The Meanings of Life)

And when you believe your voice holds value ... well, let's just say, that belief can make a life changing difference. --Rachel Macy Stafford (in When You Listen To A Child)

A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. --J.D. Stroube (in All Because Of George)

Forgiveness is not just about the other. It's really for the beauty of your soul. It's for your own capacity to fulfill your life. --Jack Kornfield (in The Ancient Heart of Forgiveness)

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. --Nelson Mandela (in Insights From Photographing Spiritual Giants)

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. --William Shakespeare (in How Sleep Makes You Smart)

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves. --Terry Tempest Williams (in Beauty Feeds A Different Kind of Hunger)

A different language is a different vision of life. --Federico Fellini (in The Healing Power of Presence)

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. --Erich Fromm (in Mind & Mood On A Breathing Planet)

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. --Nelson Mandela (in Insights From Photographing Spiritual Giants)

The reason why love is eternal is that it does not exist for itself, but gives life to those it transforms. --Jeffrey Fry (in A 29-Year-Old's Undying Legacy of Love)

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give --Winston Churchill (in 12-Year Old Musician With A Big Heart)

Sometimes it's easy to walk by because we know we can't change someone's whole life in a single afternoon. But what we fail to realize is that simple kindness can go a long way. --Mike Yankoski (in Pop-Up Clothing Swap For the Homeless)

Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in Grace Hearth: Soul-Warming Food & A Community Movement)

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential. --Rusty Berkus (in The Conditioned: A Sidewalk Poet Finds His Home)