Quotes About Purpose

I shall never be one of those directly active (except as a teacher, occasionally), but now and then I am made aware that my work, odd though it seems, does help people.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

Live as though life was created for you.

A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

One person, with good purpose, can, constitute the majority.

You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

She lived life as if it had been created just for her

The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

I believe that there lives a burning desire in the most sequestered private heart of every American, a desire to belong to a great counter.

My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Dancing liberated me and even made me feel as if my body had a reason to be

To make a difference is not a matter of accident, a matter of casual occurrence of the tides. People choose to make a difference.

Take as much time as you need to make up your mind, but once it is made up, step out on your decision like it's something you want.

Life had a conveyor-belt quality. It went on unpursued and unpursuing

Her world was bordered on all sides with work, duty, religion and her place. I don't think she ever knew that a deep-brooding love hung over everything she touched.

Midwives and winding sheets know birthing is hard and dying is mean and living's a trial in between. Why do we journey, muttering like rumors among the stars? Is a dimension lost? Is it love?

You've given me reason to really live and not just exist anymore. I don't think you realize just how much you've changed me in a very short period of time.

You were made for me, Eden. Just as I was made for you. We fit. We just fit.

I know when I've been given my marching orders.

Things are rarely as random as they appear