Quotes About Purpose

I was born for better things.

My imagination is most at ease with an old literary convention like the epistolary novel, or a classical myth--received melody lines, so to speak, which I then reorchestrate to my purpose.

Desire is the essence of a man.

The purpose of the state is really freedom.

Der Endzweck des Staates ist [...] im Grund die Freiheit.

Your purpose is to be YOU as fully as you can and the way that's perhaps most easily done is to act on your highest joy.

The greatest gift creation has given to all of you is that life is fundamentally meaningless. That means it has no built-in meaning. What that also means is, you were designed to give it the meaning you prefer to give it. And the meaning you give it will utterly determine how you experience it.

Achievement is living your life to the fullest. Being you as best as you can. And the way you do that is by acting on your highest excitement. That's it. That's your purpose in life; that's your mission; that's the highest achievement; is to be you, the true you, as fully as you can and enjoy the ride. That's it.

A path is not something you're on. A path is what you are.

Happy is the man who can recognise in the work of Today a connected portion of the work of life, and an embodiment of the work of Eternity ...

To be a useful man has always seemed to me a hideous thing.

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason.

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.

Actors don't retire; people who are in jobs they don't like retire.

Live life as though you might die tomorrow. Do what you would like to be doing, and do your best each day.

Like usual, what I want is not important, what I'm supposed to do that counts.

I don't want to be a reality TV star - that's not for me.

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

I can't tell you how many times I quit only to realize that when the work has been your life, you don't really have a life without it.

Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that's all it is.

If somebody would've told me that I was going to lose my legs at the age of 19, I would've thought there's absolutely no way I'd be able to handle that. But then it happened, and I realized that there's so much more to live for, that my life isn't about my legs.

What I realized was that CrossFit wasn't what defined me as a human being, it was the sacrifice that Christ made for me and all of us that defined who I was.

I'm very passionate about the game, but I don't want to do it as a living. I feel confident in the path that I'm taking now and I didn't feel confident in the path that I was taking with golf - I just realized that I don't want to play professionally.