Thomas a Kempis Quotes

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are.

There is more to life than a job. I didn't ever want to look back and point to a bookshelf of videotapes and say, 'That's been my life.' It's so much easier to write a resume than it is to craft a spirit.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.

I've got a lot of opportunities, a lot of love in my life, a lot of things going for me. Still, it's not complete. I know this is not the whole thing. There's much more.

How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.