The fact that the alarm clock did not ring has already changed many human destinies.
It's only after we have lost everything that we are free to do anything.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Say what you mean, mean what you say. You know, if everybody followed that rule, there would be a lot less trouble.
The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion—these are the two things that govern us.
— Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?
— Who I'm gonna be?
— Yeah.
— Aren't I going to be me?
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.