Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.

I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

I tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

All things lead us to our innermost truth. That is their purpose. That is the purpose of Life itself. Life is truth, revealing Itself to Itself.

Nothing exists without a purpose. Every experience you have in this lifetime was written for you to grow into the light you were meant to become.

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.

I was in my late thirties and decided my intention in life had nothing to do with the acquiring of material things, but rather it was now my intention to experience the evolution of my own soul and to grow spiritually. I wanted to come to know the highest truths of life and to express those truths in action, through myself. I wanted to become the grandest version of the greatest idea I ever held about who I am in regards to my relationship with God.

I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.

Life is everything, and you haven't lived it properly until you believe.

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth... we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

I came to the conclusion that unless I found myself and became the change I wanted to see in the world - as Gandhi said - I couldn't contribute much, nor would there be anything fulfilling or meaningful in my life. So I went on a spiritual search.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.

If you knew me in the past, please do not think that I am the same person that you are meeting today. I have experienced more of life, I have encountered new depths in those I love, I have suffered and prayed and I am different.