Frederic William Farrar Quotes

It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.

I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.

The world is set up - as foreign as that can be to some people who are very materialistic - but there is a force in this world, once we step into it, that opens doors for us, that gives us a sense of purpose and the greatest life there is, in my view.

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.

The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

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

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

After I started to understand the spiritual dimension of life, I understood the responsibilities you have as a husband, a father, a friend and a hockey player.

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

It's not age that makes a life. It's what you do with it.

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.

'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that.

Turning 30 changed me in ways I didn't expect. For the very first time, I felt like my life is valuable. Not my life because I'm putting something good into the world or I'm well-respected in my field, but my life as a human being on this planet for a limited amount of time.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

Whether I live long or short is not the question: what quality that I surrounded myself is!

Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life — that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' — but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man — and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!

With only one life to live we can't afford to live it only for itself. Somehow we must each for himself, find the way in which we can make our individual lives fit into the pattern of all the lives which surround it. We must establish our own relationships to the whole. And each must do it in his own way, using his own talents, relying on his own integrity and strength, climbing his own road to his own summit.

A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.

Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Your mission in life is to have a "why" to live for, to use your best qualities in the service of the kind of world in which you would like to live. That is your purpose. This is what life expects of you. And when you live according to your purpose, setting goals that support it, you may find the pieces of your life drawn together into a strong internal whole. Then, no matter how difficult life's experiences may prove to be, you can be able to endure and even prevail.