Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.
- Topic: Destiny, Goals, Purpose
- Location: Valley of Fire State Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?
In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.
This I learned in Auschwitz: There are only two races. The race of the decent and the race of the indecent.
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Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.
There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is a fact.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
If you ask enough people, eventually someone will say yes.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
