1) Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone –
we find it with another. ~ Thomas Merton
2) “There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each
give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a
book for each person.” ~ Anaïs Nin
3)“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only
end of life.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books
4) You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you can realize that your life is the
miracle. ~ Robert Brault
5) “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
6) Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
~Danny Kaye
7) “Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. … Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. As individuals, we can make a difference, whether it is to probe the secrets of Nature, to clean up the environment and work for peace and social justice, or to nurture the inquisitive, vibrant spirit of the young by being a mentor and a guide.” ~ Michio Kaku
8) “The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
~William James
9) You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ~Albert Camus
10) “Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, … “There is always a day of reckoning.” The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits—ourselves, or to … our souls. That is every human’s life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting.” ~ Donald Van de Mark
11) Life is the sum of all your choices. ~ Albert Camus
12) “At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.”
~ Paulo Coelho
13) “The end is not the reward; the path you take, the emotions that course through you as you grasp life – that is the reward.” ~ Jamie Magee
14) “Only when you accept that one day you’ll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that’s the big secret. That’s the miracle.” ~ Gabriel Bá
15) “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” ~ Helen Keller
16) “Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.” ~ Max Lucado
17) To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~Emily Dickinson
18) Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. ~Frederick Buechner
19) Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. ~Henry Van Dyke
20) The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. ~Henry David Thoreau
21) Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~Grandma Moses
22) “The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.” ~ Anne Rice
23) “Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.” ~ Welwyn Wilton Katz
24) “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
25) “Human resources are like natural resources; they’re often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they’re not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.” ~ Ken Robinson
26) Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ~Charles Schulz
27) Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Andersen
28) “God and Destiny are not against us, rather they are for us, they are the ones who never forget the things we have long forgotten, the ones who hear the desires of our heart that our own heads can’t hear, and they are the ones who never forget who we really are, long after our minds have forgotten the images of who we are. We come from God and we belong to Destiny, yet for some reason of ignorance we think that to be the master of our own fates and the captain of our own souls means to write everything down on a paper and plan everything out on a grid! Such great things to be done, and we think they are accomplished by our primitive ways! No. We must only know what we want. And want what we want. And then fly high enough to see all that which we want that we couldn’t yet see.” ~ C. JoyBell C.
29) I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer. ~Jim Carrey
30) “A life directed chiefly towards the fulfillment of personal desires sooner or later always leads to bitter disappointment.”
~ Albert Einstein
31) “It was Lord Jesus Christ who said “Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” What Jesus meant was that whoever is attached to the worldly life and this earthly body will lose them in death. But whoever lets go of attachments to this worldly life and this earthly body and identifies with the permanence or God-consciousness that Jesus represented, will never die. What good does it do to have all the riches of the world and all the world’s pleasures? They will all disappear in the flash we call a human lifetime. Focusing on the pleasures of the world keeps the mind too distracted to search for the inner Self.” ~ Swami Rama.
32) Human life is purely a matter of deciding what’s important to you. ~Anonymous
33) “He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? But to act justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.” ~ Anonymous, Holy Bible:
King James Version
34) Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit. ~ The two bothers: Augustus & Julius Hare
35) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me.” ~ Erma Bombeck
36) Everything that occurs in your life is part of God’s plan to wake you up. ~Leonard Jacobson
37) To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. ~Samuel Butler
38) “Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.” ~ Dorothy Thompson
39) “We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.” ~ Stevie Wonder
40) “When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing — then we truly live life.” ~ Greg Anderson
41) “We lose ourselves in the things we love. We find ourselves there, too.” ~ Kristin Martz
42) “If you cant figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. Fo your passion will lead you right into your purpose.” ~ Bishop T.D. Jakes
43) “When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.” ~ W. Clement Stone
44) “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I… I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” ~ Robert Frost
45) “The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy or passion.” ~ Terry Orlick
46) “When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.” ~ Stedman Graham
47) “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill
48) “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.” ~ Tom Brokaw
49) “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” ~ James Dean
50) “Love is eternal.” … “Meanwhile these three things remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13, Holy Bible
Courtesy of JulesBronte.com for this nice collection of inspirational quotes
