The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life.
That meaning may come from work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage (exhibited during difficult times).
Things beyond your control can take away everything you have except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to a situation.
Life has meaning under any condition, even miserable ones.
Don’t aim at success – the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
Success is like happiness, it cannot be pursued; it must come afterward and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as a by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
Happiness and success must happen by not caring about them.
Do what your conscience commands you to do and then do it to the best of your knowledge. Then in the long run, success will follow you because you have forgotten to think about it.
Pleasure is a by-product and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree it is made the goal itself.
We as humans must have the dynamic tension that is created by the never-ending quest to be more than we are.
We must never arrive at the destination we desire, for then life will have no further purpose for us.
When we stop growing, we die.