This rare and precious gift of human life has been bestowed upon us so that we may return to our true Home. --Dada Vaswani (in Live a Life Worth Living)

Man instinctively regards himself as a wanderer and wayfarer, and it is second nature for him to go on pilgrimage in search of a privileged and holy place, a center and source of indefectible life. --Thomas Merton (in On the Road with Thomas Merton)

Life is a farce if a person does not serve truth. --Hilma af Klint (in Hilma af Klint: Enigmatic Mystic & Mother of Abstract Art)

Don't waste life in doubts and fears. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (in Doubts)

May you live every day of your life. --Jonathan Swift (in My 94-Year-Old Dad Talks About COVID-19)

The question is not 'Can you make a difference?' You already do make a difference. It's just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet. --Julia Butterfly Hill (in Inside the Fight to Save an Ancient Forest)

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 What Makes A Good Life?)

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 Nutrition)

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. --George Eliot (in There Are Songs )

The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body -- to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. --Eckhart Tolle (in A Portal to Presence)

There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that. --Rumi (in ThanksBeing with Rumi)

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. --Edwin Markham (in The Golden Rule & The Transformation of Being)

Some people were born on third base and go through life thinking they've hit a triple. --Barry Switzer (in Born On Third Base)

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife --Kahlil Gibran (in Time to Shed Our Skins)

May the sun bring you new energy by day,
May the moon softly restore you by night,
May the rain wash away your worries,
May you walk gently through the world
And know its beauty all the days of your life. --Elliott Arnold (in Her Imagination is a Beautiful Garden)

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming. --Hermann Hesse (in The Dying Sea: A Conversation with Radek Skrivanek)

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it is. A moment of Radical Acceptance is a moment of genuine freedom. --Tara Brach (in What Defines You)

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? --Annie Dillard (in 14 Fabulous & Contemporary Women Nature Writers )

Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy, and dull things become cheerful. --Leo Tolstoy (in Attainable Aspirations Inspired By Great Humans of the Past)

To listen to trees, nature's great connectors, is to learn how to inhabit the relationships that give life its source, substance, and beauty --David George Haskell (in The Log- Year 2)

To lock down the delicate filigree of life in explanation is to lose it, but not to see it is disastrous. --Nora Bateson (in What is Holding it Together?)

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. --Muhammad Ali (in Alicia Doyle: Fighting Chance)

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional. --Robert Genn (in The Really Terrible Orchestra)

Every human being is called to solidarity in a world battling between life and death. --Ignacio Ellacuria (in A World Held Sacred...)

The planet will never come alive for you unless your songs and stories give life to all the beings, seen and unseen, that inhabit a living Earth. --Amitav Ghosh (in Darkness Rising)

We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. --George William Russell (in Oncology Yoga: Tapping into the Wisdom of the Body)

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life. --Helen Keller (in Conserving Quiet)

There is a great difference between comprehending the knowledge of things and tasting the hidden life of them. --Isaac Penington (in The Missing Piece)

Living simply is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation. It's about living an examined life where one has determined what is truly important and enough... and then just let go of all the rest. --Duane Elgin (in Being Simply Beautiful)

The inner life of a Black child, I think, is one of the most sacred places on Earth. --Major Jackson (in To Observe that Kind of Devotion)

Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness. --Leo Tolstoy (in Small Kindnesses)

We have the opportunity to lay the foundations for a way of life more aligned with the deeper truths of the Earth and our own sacred nature. --Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (in Watching River Otters)

To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.

--Kahlil Gibran (in Prophets Without Robes or Staffs)

I may not be in total control of what happens in my life, but I certainly am in charge of how I choose to perceive my experience. --Jill Bolte Taylor (in Meet the Four Characters of Your Brain)

Surrendering reminds me that my way is always inferior to the way of life. --Anna-Zoe Herr (in Surrendering and Opening to Hope in Times of Crisis)

Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter. --Suzanne Simard (in Suzanne Simard: Forests are Wired for Wisdom)

Nonviolence is not a tactic to be taken out of the box when it seems fit to use. It is a way of life. --Sami Awad (in Sami Awad: A Holy Land for All)

If we're not paying attention through our own senses, we have disengaged from the primary mode in which every creature since the origin of life has connected to its environment. --David George Haskell (in Listening and the Crisis of Attention)

(...)I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. --F. Scott Fitzgerald (in Stonehenge: A Summer Solstice Experience)

All life is fermentation. --Richard P. Feynman (in Fermentation as Metaphor)

Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life? --Mary Oliver (in The Lost Art of Breathing)

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning. --Henry Ward Beecher (in The Nettle Dress)

I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. --Diane Ackerman (in Women on the Road)

We've forgotten what the child understands intuitively: that language comes from the deep wilderness of life itself, that it comes from play, and that the unsuspected appears from nowhere again and again. --Andy Couturier (in Andy Couturier: Writing Open the Mind)

When you are present in your own life it extends infinitely in every direction. --John Tarrant (in You Don't Have to Know: Our Dark Materials)

I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may never complete this last one,
but I give myself to it. --Rainer Maria Rilke, translation Joanna Macy, Anita Barrows (in Widening Circles: An Interview with Joanna Macy)

All life-forms are in fact processes not things. --Merlin Sheldrake (in Merlin Sheldrake: Entangled Life)

What gives me hope is that life unfailingly responds to the advances of love. --Nipun Mehta (in Nipun Mehta: A Deeper Thanksgiving)

No matter what life throws at you, or how unfair you think it is, never give up. Pick yourself up and go on. -- (in The Queen of Basketball)

It's a calming thing, to learn there's a word for something you've felt all your life but didn't know was shared by anyone else. --John Koenig (in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows)