The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing – where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
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