Echoes

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don’t settle.

Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the muse; Nothing refuse.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Yes, you can--if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.

The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer.

Be thou never without something to do; be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or doing something that is useful to the community.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

He who is everywhere is nowhere.

In short, in life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard!

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.