"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
-- Robert Byrne

"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life... I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive."
-- Joseph Campbell

"It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe."
-- Thomas Carlyle

"Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do."
-- William Ellery Channing

"Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself."
-- Norman Cousins.

"Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him."
-- Norman Cousins

"Walk in the ways of thine heart."
-- Ecclesiastes 11:19

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth..."
-- Albert Einstein

"The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth."
-- Eliza Farnham

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The man who is born with a talent which he is meat to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If you live for love you spread kindness and compassion everywhere you go. When you stop believing in your heart you are but a sterile vessel wandering in the wilderness."
-- Francis Hegmeyer

"Walk in the light of your own fire, and in the flame which ye have kindled."
-- Isaiah 50:11

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. Now put foundations under them."
-- Osa Johnson

"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

"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

"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

 

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