Quotes About Purpose

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more... I'm only unhappy when I'm not working.

Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.

Over the course of your life, you realize more and more who you are and how you want to spend your time. And it became clearer and clearer that I was very unhappy as an actress and didn't feel comfortable in my own skin. When I was younger, I thought it was because I wasn't successful enough.

There isn't much room to get sick, be angry or unhappy when you do something you love all day.

The prospect that I could actually be a journalist triggered a 'Who do you think you are?' reaction in me. It was only in going to law school and being unhappy there that I realized that I really, really had to try it.

Those who fixate only on making money or winning elections will find it an unhappy existence much of the time.

If you are unhappy, you cant raise a happy child. One should follow their passion and do something they like.

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

Acting is not my primary drive in life, although I'd be a very unhealthy person without it.

Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.

Fundamentally, what you're trying to do when you're directing is get a group of people who most likely have never met, unify them, and make sure that we're all clear on what we're marching towards.

It's hard to get burned out or uninspired, man.

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

We have to be serious and consistent if we believe the European Union makes sense. I believe it makes sense.

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

When I go out and talk to people about how unique they are as a human being and that there's a niche for them that they need to follow through on for their lives, it's what I truly believe in.

I have a friend who is very successful in business, and his motto is, 'Don't do what you can do. Do what only you can do.' First of all, you have to know what your specific, unique gift is and then you do that... every actor does that but every once in a while an actor plays a part that only they can play.

God has placed within each of us an immeasurable, unique gift. It is our duty to live that out to the full and to encourage one another with gusto.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Try out lots of different options early in your career. Then watch the responses: how you feel, what the market values, what people appreciate about you. It's the only way to find work that's uniquely right for you.

Each of us has been gifted uniquely by God, and should use it to good capacity.

For all the oddballs and misfits out there, eventually, if you just follow your path, you will reach somewhere no one else has. You are uniquely meant to do something that only you can do.