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What
is the essence of life? To serve others and to do
good.
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"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
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I
feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives
life its deepest significance.
-- Pablo Casals
The
first thing to do in life is to do with purpose
what one purposes to do.
-- Pablo Casals
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"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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Most
of what we take as being important is not material,
whether it's music or feelings or love. They're
things we can't really see or touch. They're not
material, but they're vitally important to us.
--
Judy Collins
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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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Our
prime purpose in this life is to help others. And
if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
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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
"We're
here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason
is to throw little torches out to lead people through
the dark."
-- Whoopi Goldberg
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You would not exist if you did not have something
to bring to the table of life.
-- Herbie Hancock
You
don't need the fame to be vital.
-- Herbie Hancock
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"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
It
is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize
each other, to learn to see the other and honor him
for what he is.
-- Hermann Hesse
"Walk
in the light of your own fire, and in the flame which
ye have kindled."
-- Isaiah 50:11
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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My
trust in a higher power that wants me to survive
and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving
forward.
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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
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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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"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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A
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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"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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"...if
one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life 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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