Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

If you do it properly, life is art, really.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

It is just living life intentionally - that is what I want instead of just existing.

I don't do anything just for the sake of it. I don't live my life for the sake of it.

Life should be art, right?

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

Everybody wears an unseen sign that reads: Inspire me. Remind me that my life matters; call me to be my best self; appeal to whatever in me is most noble and honorable. Don't let me go down the path of least resistance. Challenge me to make my life about something more than the acquisition of money or success

It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days adds up to a formless blur, or to something resembling a work of art.

Once you master how your own consciousness operates, anything can be desired and achieved.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experience of me, everyone's interaction with me, everyone's discussion, conversation, relationship with me - [to be] an event within which they get to see who they are. I would make of my life a work of art.

The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.

Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself - no helper hast thou here - Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all.

From birth to death you go on living, groping in darkness with no light - and you could have created the light. You cannot find it in the scriptures; nobody can hand it to you. It is not purchased or sold; it is nontransferable. But you can create it - you can put all your energies together. You can start living consciously from this very moment.

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

Build a life, don't live one...

You are the creator of your own destiny

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

Nobody wants to have meaninglessness in their lives. You probably see a lot of people living their lives that don't have a whole lot of meaning that you can perceive, and you don't want that for yourself.

We are in charge of our attitudes.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.