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)

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. --William Shakespeare (in Knitting Behind Bars)

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. ---Henry David Thoreau- (in The Spirit Of Sauntering)

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love. --Rumi (in Anne Lamott On Grief, Grace & Gratitude)

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity... --John Muir (in 6 Promising Trends For The New Nature Movement)

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. --Paracelsus (in What The People Of The Amazon Know That You Don't)

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. --Pablo Picasso (in The Art of Noticing ... and Creating)

I breathe deeply and fully. I take in the breath of life, and I am nourished. --Louise Hay (in 34 Affirmations For Healthy Living)

To those who have given up on love: I say, 'Trust life a little bit.' --Maya Angelou (in It Is Now That My Life Is Mine)

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life. --Isaac Singer (in Top 10 Kindness Stories of 2014)

Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in Are You An Adrenaline Addict?)

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. --Leo Buscaglia (in Touch as a Form of Nutrition)

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. --Leo Burnett (in How To Retrain Your Brain With Three Words)

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. --Omar Khayyam (in Goals & Happiness: A Virtuous Cycle Infographic)

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. --Alan Alda (in 14 Surprising Ways To Boost Your Creativity)

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. --Anonymous (in Everybody Is Good At Something: Meeting VR Ferose)

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. --Anonymous (in How to Run a Company with (Almost) No Rules)

The mentors in my life, inspired me to fulfill my highest potential. --Lailah Gifty Akita (in How To Forge A Mentoring Relationship)

In the rain forest, no niche lies unused. No emptiness goes unfilled. No gasp of sunlight goes untrapped. In a million vest pockets, a million life-forms quietly tick. --Diane Ackerman (in What Can Save The Rain Forest? Your Used Cell Phone)

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. --Confucius (in What Makes A Great Workplace?)

No water, no life. No blue, no green. --Sylvia Earle (in 3 Stories that Will Change the Way You Look at Water)