What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life, given to search for truth and to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas.

My only intention is that you blossom into a full-fledged life because that’s all life is about.

If we have love of God in our life, it really does not matter whether we don’t have anything or whether we have everything; we will be satisfied because of that love.

The earth is the basis of life. Spending some time touching soil, plants, or trees will harmonize your system.

Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.

Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million ryo of gold.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Sankalpa (determination) is very important. You cannot change your circumstances, the world, or society to suit you. If you have strength and determination, you can go through the procession of life very successfully.

Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.

Love the world with your heart's dreams. Serve the world with your life's promises.

The lord of life is love. Never get sad. Be happy and take care of your happiness. Jump in joy without worrying for the future. Why remain serious? Let you learn to jump in joy and smile all the time.

Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.

Truthfulness, chastity, simplicity, and equanimity are the four pillars of a pious life.

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites.

Once you have established your inner contact with your inner Pilot, your life's transformation-victory will not remain a far cry.

I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life.