"If
you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. Now put foundations
under them."
-- Osa Johnson
Life
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
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trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is
what keeps me moving forward.
--
Kenny Loggins |
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"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."
--
Madonna |
It
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 Marx
Real
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
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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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ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.
-- William Shedd
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The
first part of the Answer to the Question of the 'Meaning
of Life' is about the way to truly Live. And that
is to love and be loved by the people in your life
with all your heart, and to seek to live in the Now
– to strive to be present with them, and remember
this mission and purpose through the struggles and
the joy, and to share together the amazing journey
of life. The second part is to see Life as more than
your own life and your own time. To see that throughout
time, humanity has shared a vision of ‘peace on earth’.
And though it is an impossible dream, only a life
lived in service to humanity – in honor of this shared
goal – can help to validate the struggles of the 93
billion people who have lived and died, the 7 billion
dreams of those alive today, and the hope of humanity
to come. The third is to find a balance between the
two – between living your individual life to the fullest,
while striving to help humanity evolve to a higher
consciousness of compassion, meaning and purpose.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
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To 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
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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 |
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