Quotations About Life's Purpose II

Each small task of everyday is part of the total harmony of the universe.
St. Theresa of Lisieux

Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Anonymous

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Aurelius, Marcus

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
Newton, Isaac

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Wilson, Woodrow

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Paul Valery

Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
Henry David Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Harry Truman

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Publius Syrus

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. George Bernard Shaw

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friederich Nietzsche

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Euripides

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
Malcom Forbes

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin

The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Disraeli

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George Eliot

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Edward Phelps

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
Pindar

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.
Peter Quennell

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
Marcus Aurelius (121-180)

"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved."
D.H. Lawrence