"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
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"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
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"Walk
in the ways of thine heart."
-- Ecclesiastes 11:19
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"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
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"The
ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts,
is to become acquainted with Truth."
-- Eliza Farnham
"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
