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)

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. --Omar Khayyam (in 6 Mindfulness Practices For Leaders (And Everyone, Really))

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. --Henry David Thoreau (in Hamlet's Blackberry: To Surf Or Not To Surf?)

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? --Mary Oliver (in The Oldest Living Things In The World)

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 Arianna Huffington: Can Gratitude Help You Thrive?)

Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity. --Fritjof Capra (in Fritjof Capra On Life & Leadership)

There is more to life than merely increasing its speed. ---M.K. Gandhi- (in Cartographies of Time)

Character -- the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life -- is the source from which self-respect springs. --Joan Didion (in Letters To A Young Artist)

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. --Confucius (in An Illustrated Poster For People Who Love Their Work)

Life is more fun if you play games. --Roald Dahl (in 10 Life Lessons Kids Can Teach Us)

If you see a whole thing -- it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. --Ursula K. Le Guin (in How Life Has Transformed Our Planet)

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. --His Holiness the Dalai Lama (in Newtown Victim's Dream Becomes A Reality)

The secret of happiness is, find something more important than you are dedicate your life to it. --Daniel Dennet (in Rethinking the Placebo Effect)

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. --Albert Einstein (in A Stranger's Life-Saving Gift)

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. --Henry Ford (in Perfect Pairing: Young People Teaching Seniors About Technology)

I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. --Bill Watterson (in The Magic Of A Garden)

Not only is it possible to create a greater sense of harmony among the different parts of your life while achieving greatness, it is necessary. --Stuart Friedman (in Critical Steps To Integrating Life & Work)

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle! --Stevie Wonder (in The Deaf & Blind Artist Who Never Gave Up)

That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. --William Wordsworth (in A Town Rallies To Make A Local Store Owner's Day)

Where there's life, there's hope. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (in How One Doctor And His Menagerie Transformed A Nursing Home)

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. --Maria Montessori (in An Open Letter To The Children Of The World)