Transformation of Consciousness

One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell

The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Create Light for Others

Eight Rules for Living Your Greatest Life

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Live With Passion
      

Great Achievements Build a Monument

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime,
and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The three controlling desires of every normal man seem to be:
First, to live. Not merely to exist.
Second, to be a man among men.
Third, to do that which will endure.
- James Hulme Canfield

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others.
Devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning.
- Mitch Albom

Death comes to all,
but great achievements build a monument
which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Further reading: Your Legacy - Making a Difference

Earning a Good Name

A Truly Successful Life

The Seeds You Plant

Our Grandchildren's Planet
     

Service and Caring for Others

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning.
- Mitch Albom

One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll

The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Create Light for Others

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Eight Rules for Living Your Greatest Life

Live With Passion
      

Enduring Legacy

The three controlling desires of every normal man seem to be:
First, to live. Not merely to exist.
Second, to be a man among men.
Third, to do that which will endure.
- James Hulme Canfield

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime,
and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Death comes to all,
but great achievements build a monument
which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others.
Devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning.
- Mitch Albom

Further reading: Your Legacy - Making a Difference

A Truly Successful Life

Earning a Good Name

Our Grandchildren's Planet

The Seeds You Plant
     

Service - It's What We Live For

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning.
- Mitch Albom

One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll

The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Know The Difference

What Really Matters?
  

Beyond Ourselves

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell

One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning.
- Mitch Albom

The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Create Light for Others

Eight Rules for Living Your Greatest Life

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Live With Passion
    

The Purpose of Our Lives

The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others.
Devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning.
- Mitch Albom

Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Bear with each other and forgive one another.
- Colossians 3:12

Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Further reading:Love Your Neighbor

Your Legacy - Making a Difference

Working Toward a Better World

Our Grandchildren

Where do you want to go?

One day Alice came to a fork in the road
and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
His responses was a question: "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll

To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning.
- Mitch Albom

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ...
I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost

How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
- Stephen R. Covey

Choose your life purpose, and excel at living into that purpose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Why?

How to Make a Decision You Won't Regret

Purpose and Direction

Choices

Life Purpose

The Meaning of Life

Pragmatism

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- attributed to Thomas Jefferson

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom

Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Pragmatism vs. Idealism:
There are times to rock the boat,
But mostly it is better to stay dry
than to capsize.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Acceptance

Expectations

Tolerance

Tread Lightly

Perspective

Wisdom

Differences

Your Community

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom

No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt

A small compassionate act enlarges the scope of community.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy

Our opportunity is always to make the choice for Joy.
To see the world with new eyes - open eyes - loving eyes.
To choose compassion and understanding -
for ourselves, our family, our friends,
our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Civic Responsibility

Our Circle

Encourage Others

Opportunity

Meaning

Cooperation

Understanding

What Really Matters

How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most.
- Stephen Covey

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning.
- Mitch Albom

There are three constants in life...
change, choice and principles.
- Stephen Covey

Understanding can overcome any situation,
however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

The Campbell quote does NOT mean that life is meaningless or empty. Campbell's point is that we get to CHOOSE the meaning for our lives. Our lives mean exactly what we say they do - no more, no less. Each of us chooses their path in life.

Further reading: How to Choose Your Life Purpose

The Meaning Of Time

The Rattlesnake of the Mind

Brotherly Love

As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom

One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll

The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Secret of Happiness

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Pay It Forward

Brotherly Love Quotes

Spiritual Quotes

Prayers for Healing

Life Purpose Quotes

Good Works Quotes

Uplifting

As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way. - Mary Anne Radmacher 

 The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller 

 Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. - Marie Curie 

 The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. - Mitch Albom 

 It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt 

 May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie 

 Further reading: The Secret of Happiness 

  How to Choose Your Life Purpose 

  Feel Your Connection With the Infinite - a Meditation