The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.
It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.
The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.