“Both believers and unbelievers go through temptations”
“You have a calling, but this does not mean that you must start your ministry immediately”
“Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”
“The best things in life make you sweaty.”
“Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- Is this all?”
“A Man Said to the Universe A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.”
“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
“In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one s mind incapable of definite purpose.”
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
“Believe in Your Heart Believe in your heart that you re meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.”
“Invest your time in producing product or service”
“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.”
“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it”
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”
“I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, aw shit, he s up!”
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”