Circumstances Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

It is our commitment to wholeness that matters, the willingness to unfold in every deep aspect of our being.

— Jack Kornfield

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

— Anonymous

“You have a mighty purpose, a function to fulfill — a reason for being. And it’s more than just “make a living.” You are…

— Derek Rydall

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

— Adam Smith

For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.

— Seneca the Elder

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man…

— Honore de Balzac

To have our needs met, to love, to be loved, to feel safe in this world and to each know our purpose, is a…

— Anonymous

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world…

— David Whyte

“Our nature gives us purpose, to reflect and act upon, responsibly by choice.”

— Xavier Rosseel

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

— Josiah Royce

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our…

— Gerald Vann

We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every…

— Ernest Holmes