Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

The meaning of life is life.

The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means.

'Do I have a purpose.' Right. And of course you do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be on Earth. I really strongly believe that if we're here, it's for a reason.

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

Everybody has to solve that "meaning of life" and purpose question for themselves. Everybody does it their own way. I think you have to be thoughtful about the way that you're doing it. So I describe it as purpose. If you can think about leading a purposeful life - not just an accumulation but you actually make the world a better place - then I think in the grand scheme of the universe, that that explains our existence. If not, we're just passing through. We're grains of sand and we're blowing in the breeze.

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.

Life's objective is life itself.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

I have a rendezvous with life.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?'

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

I've always asked myself since I was young, what is my duty on this planet? What am I there for? Just to hang around? Everybody must have some purpose.

You didn't create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.