1. A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

2. Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

3. I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

4. I think the person who takes a job in order to live – that is to say, for the money – has turned himself into a slave.

5. Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

6. It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

7. 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.

8. Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

9. Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

10. What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

11. Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

12. The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.