Reflections on Life

"Existence is synonymous with purpose."

--Dr. Micah Sadigh

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T.S. Eliot

"Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else."

--T.S. Eliot

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Mary Mmanin Morrissey

"Some people live ninety years, some people live one year ninety consecutive times."

--Mary Mmanin Morrissey

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Agnes Repplier

"The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person."

--Agnes Repplier

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Buddhist Teaching

If you want to know your past life,
look at your present condition,
if you want to know your future life,
look at your present actions.

--Buddhist Teaching

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Charles C. Noble

"You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures."

--Charles C. Noble

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Rabindranath Tagore

"Death is not putting out a light. It is only extinguishing a lamp because the day has come."

--Rabindranath Tagore

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Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."

--Dr. Joyce Brothers

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Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

--Albert Einstein

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Reflections on Life

"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resists."

--Plutarch

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Storm Jameson

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to be needed."

--Storm Jameson

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Robert H. Schuller

"Commit yourself to a dream…Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure because he succeeded in life’s most important battle—he defeated the fear of trying."

--Robert H. Schuller

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Epictetus

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond our control."

--Epictetus

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Reflections on Life

"Happiness, pure happiness is a virtue in itself."

--Benedictus Spinoza

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Henry David Thoreau

"It is not enough to be a hard-working person. Think: what do you work at?"

--Henry David Thoreau

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Marcus Aurelius

"Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them."

--Marcus Aurelius

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Leo Tolstoy

"A person who knows all sciences but does not know himself is a poor and ignorant person. He who does not know anything except for his inner spiritual self is an enlightened person."

--Leo Tolstoy

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Reflections on Life

"An individual’s human existence should be like a river--small at first, narrowly contained within its bounds, and seeking passionately past boulders and even waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wide, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break they become merged in the sea and painlessly lose their individual being."

--Bertrand Russell

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Do not be interested in the quantity of people who respect and admire you, but in their quality. If bad people dislike you, so much the better."

--Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Socrates

"Pleasure, luxury—these things you call happiness, but I think that to wish nothing is the happiness of God, and when you wish to have only small things, then you make yourself closer to this divine and high happiness."

--Socrates

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G.K.Chesterton

"The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder."

--G.K.Chesterton

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Joseph Addison

"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."

--Joseph Addison

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John Donne

"Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail."

--John Donne

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Albert Einstein

"One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."

--Albert Einstein

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Leo Tolstoy

"Life is the constant approach of death; therefore, life can only be bliss when death does not seem to be an evil."

--Leo Tolstoy

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Democritus

"The happiness or unhappiness of a man does not depend upon the amount of property or gold he owns. Happiness or misery is in one’s soul. A wise man feels at home in every country. The whole universe is the home of a noble soul."

--Democritus

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C.S. Lewis

"Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction."

--C.S. Lewis

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Three ingredients

"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning."

--Christopher Morley

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Henry Chester

"Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence."

--Henry Chester

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Scott Nearing

"A person is not old until regrets take the place of hopes and plans. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for aging."

--Scott Nearing

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Albert Schweitzer

"The tragedy of life is not in the fact of death. The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives--the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response; the death of awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in oneself....No man need fear death: he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power--the power of his free will to give his life for others."

--Albert Schweitzer

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