Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. --Marcus Aurelius (in A Case for Wonder)

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone -- we find it with another. --Thomas Merton (in Top 10 Insights from the Science of a Meaningful Life)

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. -- (in Barry Lopez: Lyrical Writer and Thoreau of Our Times)

Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life. --Chief Oren Lyons (in Lottie Cunningham: Dedicated to Indigenous Rights)

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. --Anais Nin (in Matthew Fox: How Important is Truth?)

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps. --Barry Lopez (in Writers & Artists on the Influence of Barry Lopez)

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. --Martha Graham (in Fatherland)

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. --Jacques Cousteau (in The Song of Grandmother Cricket)

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth. --Raymond Carver (in Click Here for Unconditional Love )

Poetry is life distilled. --Gwendolyn Brooks (in Discovering Poetry En Route to Life)

Water flows from high in the mountains
Water runs deep in the Earth
Miraculously, water comes to us,
And sustains all life. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in Our Memories of Water)

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril. Without free animal life, I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. --Alice Walker (in The Caribou Guardians)

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
--Wislawa Szymborska (in A Few Words on the Soul)

You enter life a ship laden with meaning, purpose and gifts
sent to be delivered to a hungry world.
And as much as the world needs your cargo,
you need to give it away.
Everything depends on this. --Greg Kimura (in The World Needs Your Cargo: Kozo Hattori & Sue Cochrane )

No water, no life. No blue, no green. --Sylvia Earle (in The Nature of Plastics)

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. --Ursula Le Guin (in Grace in Uncertainty)

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. --Henry David Thoreau (in The Buy Nothing Project Gift Economies)

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life. --Vandana Shiva (in Reclaiming Our Common Home)

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. --Confucius (in An Illustrated Poster for People Who Love Their Work)

A life without festivity is a long road without an inn. --Democritus (in For Small Creatures Such as We)

Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.
--Joanna Macy (in The Shambhala Warrior's Weapon)

It seems to me that when I have a positive view towards anything, a positive result will more likely occur. Now being 79 years old and living a life that 99% of the time was spectacular, Ive proven my theory over and over again. --David Hoffman (in David Hoffman: A Positive View)

Trees do not preach learning and precepts. They preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life --Hermann Hesse (in How Trees Secretly Talk To Each Other)

In the tapestry of life, we're all connected. Each one of us is a gift to those around us helping each other be who we are, weaving a perfect picture together. --Sandra Day O'Connor (in The Art of Weaving)

Stillness and silence allow us to see things that were previously invisible, regardless of your walk of life. --Steve Elkins (in Echoes of the Invisible)

The more you study delight, the more delight there is to study...I felt my life to be more full of delight. Not without sorrow or fear or pain or loss. But more full of delight. --Ross Gay (in The Book of Delights: Ross Gay's Year of Willful Gladness)

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living. --Rudolf Steiner (in Rise Up Again)

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)