Seneca the Younger Quotes

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.

Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.

The choice is yours: Do you want to exist, or do you want to live?

I tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.

Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?

I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.

If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.

Finding your purpose may be a lifelong pursuit or you may have discovered it when you were 5 years old. There's no absolute timeline for anyone. That's a good reason never to give up, to keep on discovering things every day.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.

People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.

That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.