To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
Our heart is restless until it rests in You.
To live; to love; to learn; and to leave a legacy.
Life is meaningful only if you give it a meaning.
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
Our real journey in life is interior; it is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.
Don’t save something for a special occasion. Every day of your life is a special occasion.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.
Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.
We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn’t an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.
For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing.