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)

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life. --Boris Pasternak (in Bhutan's Dark Secret to Happiness)

It is a seeing of every moment of life against the horizon of death, and a challenge to incorporate that awareness of dying into every moment so as to become more fully alive. --David Steindl-Rast (in Learning to Die)

Enjoy the little things in life because one day you`ll look back and realize they were the big things. --Kurt Vonnegut (in How Happy Brains Respond to Negative Things)

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. --Nelson Henderson (in Planting Seeds: )

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us. --Louisa May Alcott (in Unlocking Multiple Forms of Wealth)

No, it won't all go the way it should. But I know the heart of life is good. --John Mayer (in Living Reverence: There is a Spark in Everything)

The unexamined life is not worth living. --Socrates (in The Disease of Being Busy)

Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go. --Oriah Mountain Dreamer (in Slow Down to Get Ahead)

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. --Kahlil Gibran (in 5 Life Lessons from My Specially-Abled Son)

Writing humbles us in a way that is vital for our character growth, by reminding us about the limits of the self and our appropriate place in the vast flow of life. --Homaira Kabir (in Finding Meaning in a Digital Age)

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' --Martin Luther King, Jr. (in Learning Generosity from a Homeless Child)

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion. --Maya Angelou (in What Matters Most?)

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. --Plato (in The Lullaby Project: Homeless Mothers Make Music)

For a long time I have known that our interior world is the soil in which the seeds of art take root. Without this seed in which the magic part of life is hidden, and from which a work of art can be born, there is no art, there is no music. --Thomas de Hartmann (in On Art & Mindfulness )

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. --Plato (in The Lady in Number Six)

Life is all about breaking those mental barriers: leaping across and clean over those little invisible fences. --Prakash Iyer (in 50 Years Ago She Did Something No Woman Ever Had)

My life is my message. --Mahatma Gandhi (in Living Gandhi's Message In Inner City Oakland)

Humankind has not woven the thread 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 Robin Wall Kimmerer: The Grammar of Animacy)

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. --Morrie Schwartz (in Letting Love Come In: Lessons from a Nursing Home)

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. --Pablo Picasso (in Earthscapes: Art that Goes Out with the Tide)