Echoes

I believe people work for satisfaction.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind — honest work, which you intend getting done.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, honorable, compassionate.

Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

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.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.

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

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

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.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

..I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

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