And forget not that the earth delights
to feel your bare feet and the winds
 Kali Gibran

Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labor to others...
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Walt Whitman

Here is a test to find out whether
 your mission in life is complete.
If you're alive, it isn't. 

Richard Bach

"People travel to wonder at the height

 of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the
long course of
 the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at
the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by
themselves without wondering."

St. Augustine, 354 430

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would
rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant
blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather
 be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow,
 than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function
of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in
trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

Jack London