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)

The best portions of a good man's life are his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love. --William Wordsworth (in Three Ways To Bring More Kindness To Your Life)

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone. You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean. --Mitch Albom (in The 'Magic Strings' of Mitch Albom)

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. --Nelson Mandela (in Have Wheels Will Shower: Bathroom Buses for the Homeless)

There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that. --Mark Twain (in Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness)

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. --Anne Roiphe (in The Surprising Benefit of Going Through Hard Times)

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. --Rachel Carson (in How Nature Resets Our Minds and Bodies)

I believe that working only from the conscious limits one's creativity -- whereas transcending consciousness can enhance the inner life of a work of art. --Denis Brown (in The Art of Sho: A Calligraphers's Pilgrimage)

Choose one thing you love about life on this planet, and make that your thing. --Camille Seaman (in The Tipping Point )

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (in Today We're His Family: Teen Volunteers Mourn Stranger's Death)

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together... all things connect. --Chief Seattle (in Lawrence Bloom: Captain Planet)