Source: The Dharma Bums
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
“What are the needs of the world? What can I do that won't be done if I don't do it?”
ABC Primetime Live interview during opening of his presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., November 2004
2000s
“The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.”
Variant: The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us.
Source: Brisingr
“What I do for a living is talk. What I do for life is action.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 140
¿Y para qué debo arrepentirme de lo que he hecho, si no puedo dejar de hacer lo que hago, que es lo que he hecho?
Voces (1943)
“If things do go badly, will I wonder for the rest of my life what I might have done to help?”
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 20
Bishop William J. Dendinger - The Samaritan Woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk1eGos_--Y (April 10, 2014)
“Do not thank me for saving your life. You do not realize yet what I have saved it for.”
Book 3, Chapter 3 “The Warrior in Jet and Gold” (p. 113)
The Jewel in the Skull (1967)
