"Life’s blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed by the fire of enthusiasm." 
-Norman Vincent Peale

"I don't believe people are looking for the meaining of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive." 
-Joseph Campbell

"Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful." 
-Thich Nhat Hanh

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is more to life than increasing its speed." 

-Mahatma Gandhi

"The whole life of a man is but a point in time; let us enjoy it." 
-Plutarch 

“Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.” 

-Eckhart Tolle

"If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place." 

-Lao Tzu

"If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you." 

-Marianne Williamson

"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience." 

-Frank Herbert

"There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life."
-Ram Dass

"The term 'human being' suggests our true calling in this life." 

-Susan Murphy

"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul." 

-Thomas Merton

“We are always getting ready to live, but never living.” 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy, however stale these experiences may have become to others." 
-Abraham Maslow

"The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty." 
-Deepak Chopra

“We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds.” 

-Pema Chödrön

"The Tao Te Ching says, When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need. Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law."
-Mary Manin Morrissey

"You don't have the power to make life 'fair,' but you do have the power to make life joyful." 

-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us." 

-Joseph Campbell