Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

I don't believe in a personal god. It's good to give thanks, whether or not there's a god. There's no reason not to live life to the fullest. Morality is all the more important for people who don't expect to get a piece of celestial candy after they die.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.” “The Codes?” “No. The Way of Kings.” “That storming book.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

Without a conscious life-purpose a man is totally lost, drifting, adapting to events rather than creating events. Without knowing his life-purpose a man lives a weakend, impotent existence, perhaps even becoming even sexually impotent or prone to mechanical and disinterested sex.

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

I know many lives worth living.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

Do not waste this life in vain pursuits.

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you. Shouldn't you take the time right now to figure out what that life is all about?