The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
A life without a cause is a life without effect.
If your life is worth thinking about, it is worth writing about.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
It’s just a ride.
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings immersed in a human experience.
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
This is your life, are you who you want to be?
The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.
Live to learn and you will really learn to live.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.