“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.”
~~ Albert Einstein ~~

“One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one’s life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.”
~~ Hannah Senesh ~~

“I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I’m free to choose what that something is, and the something I’ve chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands — this is not optional — my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.”
~~ Jimmy Carter ~~

“A useless life is an early death.”
~~ Goethe ~~

“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
~~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~~

“Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”
~~ Lewis Carroll ~~

“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”
~~ Marie Curie ~~

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
~~ Robert Byrne ~~

“I’m doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I’m really grateful to have something that I’m passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.”
~~ Marian Wright Edelman ~~

“Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
~~ Helen Keller ~~

“Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.”
~~ Logan Pearsall Smith ~~

“Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.”
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~~

“My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
~~ Pablo Picasso ~~

“Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.”
~~ Marian Wright Edelman ~~

“Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.”
~~ Paul Tillich ~~

“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”
~~ Marian Wright Edelman ~~

“All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”
~~ James Thurber ~~

“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 ~~

“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.”
~~ Thomas Merton ~~

“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”
~~ Thomas H. Huxley ~~

“Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.”
~~ Marian Wright Edelman ~~

“But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.”
~~ Paulo Coelho ~~

“In the world to come, I shall not be asked, “Why were you not Moses?” I shall be asked, “Why were you not Zusya?”"
~~ Rabbi Zusya ~~

“A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”"
~~ Victor Frankl ~~

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
~~ E. B. White ~~

“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 ~~

“Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.”
~~ Mel Brooks ~~

“We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don’t know.”
~~ W. H. Auden ~~

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
~~ Henry David Thoreau ~~

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
~~ Thomas Paine ~~

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~~

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
~~ Mark Twain ~~

“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.”
~~ Richard Bach