Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.