Quotes on the Meaning of Life
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. Now put foundations under them."
-- Osa JohnsonLife without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
-- Thomas Kempis
I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.
-- Nicole Kidman
My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.
-- Kenny Loggins
* "That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure."
-- MadonnaIt is not "history" which uses men as a means of achieving -- as if it were an individual person -- its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
-– Karl MarxReal success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
-- David McCullough"Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best."
-- Bernard Meltzer."The beautiful in life...
Some talk of it in poetry,
Some grow it from the soil,
Some build it in a steeple,
Some show it through their toil.
Some breathe it into music,
Some mold it into art,
Some shape it into bread loaves...
Some hold it in their hearts."
-- Bernard Meltzer."We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts."
-- David Merzel"The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose."
-- Montaigne"Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands."
-- Leo O'Donovan"Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial."
-- Tom Robbins"Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life."
-- Seneca"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not be false to any man."
-- William Shakespeare
"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no 'brief candle" to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
-- George Bernard Shaw
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.
-- William SheddTo freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
-- Gerry Spence"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."
-- St. Augustine
"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."
-- Henry David Thoreau"Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him."
-- Henry David Thoreau"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."
-- Henry David Thoreau"I learned at least this by my experiments. That if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
-- Henry David Thoreau
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
-- Peter Ustinov
