If we live thinking of ourselves all the time, our life will seem short, it starts with our birth and it ends when we die! But if we live for others, meaning, we live for a notion and a methodology, our life will seem very long! It starts since humanity existed and it lasts until after we die. --Syed Qutub (in Modest School Teacher Wills Millions To Charity)

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. --Sarah Bernhardt (in Oprah's Favorite Giveaway)

Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces. --Colin Neenan (in Hospital Learns From Car Racing)

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. --Henry David Thoreau (in The GoodWork Project)

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. --Morrie Schwartz (in Doctor Who Treats Patients -- At Any Cost)

I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them. --Ann Morrow Lindbergh (in The Clothesline Makes A Comeback)

Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. --William Shakespeare (in The Science Of Sleep and Scent)

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good. --Bertrand Russell (in How Do We Understand Each Other?)

Few people know that they have the power to bless life. We bless the life in each other far more than we realize. Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around us in profound ways. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in Mike's Handcarved Canes)

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt. --Frederick Buechner (in Six Degrees of Instant Messaging)

Everyone understands that water is essential to life. But many are only just now beginning to grasp how essential it is to everything in life food, energy, transportation, nature, leisure, identity, culture, social norms, and virtually all the products used on a daily basis. --World Business Council for Sustainable Development (in Flow: The Movie About Water)

Use every letter you write, every conversation you have, every meeting you attend, to express your fundamental beliefs and dreams. Affirm to others the vision of the world you want. You are a free, immensely powerful source of life and goodness. Affirm it. Spread it. Radiate it. Think day and night about it and you will see a miracle happen: the greatness of our own life. --Robert Muller (in Sixty-five Roses: A Sister's Memoir)

Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. --William Shakespeare (in How Much Sleep Do We Need?)

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. --Abraham Lincoln (in Video Games vs. The Aging Brain)

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. --Rabindranath Tagore (in From Mansion to Mud Hut)

My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy work. --Ken Blanchard (in Random Acts of Kindness Across the Country)

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. --Helen Keller (in More Miracles in Japan)

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. --Robert Byrne (in Simple Philosophy of the World's Oldest Man)

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. --Abraham Lincoln (in Secrets to Longevity)

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. --Angela Schwindt (in Where Children Sleep: A Poignant Photo Series)

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing. --Oscar Wilde (in 4 Misconceptions About the Simple Life)

Have the life you want by being fully present to the life you have. --Mark Nepo (in Waking Up to the Life We Have)

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. --Deitrich Bonhoeffer (in Meeting Michael: A Kindness Story)

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. --Abraham Lincoln (in 7 Ways to Make Happiness Last)

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences will have resonances with our own innermost being, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. --Joseph Campbell (in Following Taya: No Ordinary Life)

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. --Sarah Bernhardt (in Sarah Lahey's Hunt for Happiness)

Nothing in life is trivial. Life is whole wherever and whenever we touch it, and one moment or event is not less sacred than another. it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. --Vimala Thakar (in Letters From Strangers Save Teen's Life)

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn one's back on life. --Eleanor Roosevelt (in Love Your Life: An Interview with Maurice Sendak)

Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast. --William Shakespeare (in Why Sleeping May Be More Important Than Studying)

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight. --Elizabeth Gilbert (in Hitting Rock Bottom & Learning to Truly Live)

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life. --Bryant H. McGill (in 7 Paths to a Meaningful Life)

Each person leaves a legacy -- a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole.
--John Nichols (in Are You Living Your Eulogy Or Resume?)

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. --Dr. Seuss (in The Art of Constructive Daydreaming)

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy. --Kahlil Gibran (in Advocacy For Altrusim)

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. --Dietrich Bonhoeffer (in Grateful: A Love Song to the World)

The most important thing in life is knowing the most important things in life. --David F. Jakielo (in The Difference Between Meaning & Happiness)

I've always had the feeling that life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you. --Maya Angelou (in Maya Angelou On Identity & The Meaning of Life)

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. --John Dewey (in The Difference Between Education & Training)

Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself. --Moishe Feldenkrais (in Changing Ourselves by Changing the Brain)

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life. --Marcus Aurelius (in 5 Important Things We Learned About Mindfulness in 2015)

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion --Simone De Beauvoir (in The Story of Bopsy: The Very First Make-a-Wish Kid)

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. --Pablo Picasso (in Generosity: The Most Powerful Animating Force of Art)

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive. --Albert Schweitzer (in 8 Great Writers On Why Reverence Matters)

It can hurt to go through life with your heart open, but not as much as it does to go through life with your heart closed. --Jim Doty (in What Mindfulness is Missing)

Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast. --William Shakespeare (in How Sleep Resets the Brain's Emotional Compass)

The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart. --Annie Dillard (in Annie Dillard: On Seeing)

Do every act of your life as though it is the last act of your life. --Marcus Aurelius (in Blueberries and the Art of Being Present)

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. --Rabindranath Tagore (in He Quit His Corporate Job to Help His City's Needy)

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary it means accepting it as it comes...To accept is to say yes to life in its entirety. --Paul Tournier (in Billy Barr: The Snow Guardian)

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language. --Jason Mraz (in Belonging Creates & Undoes Us Both)