Lewis B. Smedes Quotes

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Life is not about making dough or how many movies you can make in a year. It's about finding someone that you can share things with.

I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing.

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

'Happiness' is a pointless goal.

I'm sure, ever since I was really young, that happiness is not a bottle of champagne and a girl and a limousine and a swimming pool.

Life is not just food, it's something spiritual.

Life is good to those who know how to live. I do not ever hope to accumulate great funds of worldly wealth, but I shall accumulate something far more valuable, a store of wonderful memories. When I reach the twilight of life I shall look back and say I'm glad I lived as I did, life has been good to me.

You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.

The purpose of life is life.

Somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.

If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

LIFE is WORTH LIVING when you find PURPOSE.