Brendon Burchard Quotes

Mortal experiences give us the opportunity to assess what we are doing with our lives.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

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

I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?'

At the end of our lives we all ask, 'Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter?'

Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.

My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore.

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

Having life taken away from you for a little while forces you to be more open-minded and to go live.

Trying to separate myself from my instincts of pessimism and cut out and define what it is that I really do love, what I'm here to be, why I'm here, and what I think is worth being alive for and fighting for. And those things change, but I think that that's something I am always chasing.

My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile.

As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.

There's more to life than physical and material.

I have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?