Quotes about Life

Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.

And yet we spend so much time and effort and energy on those résumé entries—entries that lose all significance as soon as our heart stops beating.

These two threads that run through our life—one pulling us into the world to achieve and make things happen, the other pulling us back from the world to nourish and replenish ourselves—can seem at odds, but in fact they reinforce each other.

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Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.

There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if—as the poet Rumi put it—everything is rigged in our favor.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

Happiness consists in the consciousness of a life in which the highest Virtue is actively manifested.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.