Quotes About Purpose

A lot of people don't know what they want, you know, or they're just kind of vague about it.

If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done yet.

Every day, take some time to meditate and cultivate inner quiet. Then ask yourself what I call the "soul questions": Who am I? What do I want? What is the purpose and meaning of my life?

I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.

I'm not a bad person. I'm just doing my thing... I'm, you know, running, I want to do something that's good. It's not an easy thing to do.

There is inside you all of the potential to be whatever you want to be all of the energy to do whatever you want to do.

I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.

Don't rely on the money to drive you. Allow the passion to drive you and allow people to come into your life that love you the most and (who want to) enjoy that journey with you.

I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do

When I'm anywhere, I'm going to show God that I'm thankful just for life. I'm living out my dream. This is what I want to do.

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

I find people to be people everywhere. Everyone wants the same thing - be successful.

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.

Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it.

I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.

I don't think it's important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don't really want to be anything in particular.

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.

If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that.

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.

God is the only true Giver, and He needs nothing from us. But still He wants us. He gave us life so that we might seek and know Him.