Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Be a doer and not a critic.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.

This is not a letter but my arms about you for a brief moment.