The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
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.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
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.
