When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
- Topic: Goals, Purpose
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This I learned in Auschwitz: There are only two races. The race of the decent and the race of the indecent.
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.
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?
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.
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We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is a fact.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
