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)

Life is only available in the present moment. --Thich Nhat Hanh. (in How To Focus A Wandering Mind)

We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical. --Carl Sagan (in Nature Needs A New Pronoun)

Wherever you are --if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time. --Joseph Campbell (in Joseph Campbell on How To Find Your Bliss)

There are two paths in life: should and must. We arrive at this crossroads over and over again. And every day, we get to choose. --Elle Luna (in The Cross Road of Should & Must)

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. --Henry David Thoreau (in Jacob Needleman on Money and the Meaning of Life)

Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful. --Amit Ray (in Eulogy Vs Resume Virtues)

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. --Albert Schweitzer (in 15 People Who Saved the Lives of Millions)

The care of human life and happines is the only legitimate object of good government. --Thomas Jefferson (in The Top 10 Happiest Countries)

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. --Marc Riboud (in 19 Uplifting Photos That Capture The Human Spirit)

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. --Joan Didion (in Moving Beyond the Blame Game)

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. --Jimi Hendrix (in Saying Farewell To A Family Pet)

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. --Khalil Gibran (in When You Give a Tree an Email Address)

I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community ... I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others. --Steve Nash (in A Track Inspector's Good Deed Goes Viral)

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. --Roger Caras (in Love at First Sight: K9s Online)

Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. --Jane Kenyon (in Jane Kenyon's Advice on Writing & Life)

A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you. --John O'Donohue (in Anam Cara and the Essence of True Friendship)

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 Slowness is an Act of Resistance)

Dogs are constant reminders that life reveals the best of itself when we live fully in the moment and extend our unconditional love. --Maira Kalman (in An Illustrated Love Letter to Canine Companions)

If you want to make a difference in someone's life, you don't need to be gorgeous, rich, famous, brilliant or perfect. You just have to care. --Karen Salmansohn (in A Small Town's Beautiful Gift to a Child)

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe to match your nature with Nature. --Joseph Campbell (in 20 Amazing Pictures from Outer Space)