Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. Read Summary
When ambition ends, happiness begins. Read Summary
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. Read Summary
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. Read Summary
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. Read Summary
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. Read Summary
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. Read Summary
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. Read Summary
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. Read Summary
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. Read Summary
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. Read Summary
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. Read Summary
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. Read Summary
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. Read Summary
We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others. Read Summary
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. Read Summary
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. Read Summary
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. Read Summary
Perhaps I am stronger than I think. Read Summary
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. Read Summary