Quotes About Purpose

Many of us never ever discover our greatness because we become sidetracked by a secondary activity.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live," Marcus Aurelius

I'm afraid I'm not working out according to plan, he said. But if I am really a person you shouldn't expect me to. Why did you make me without making a world for me to live in. It's as though God had made Adam and not bothered to make Eden, nor Eve. I think it's going to be frightfully difficult being me.

If there is one sin—or rather one waste—it is not doing what you have the inclination or gift for.

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

freedom is the knowledge of necessity and there is no wealth but life. When you understand that you understand everything.

Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

Your calling isn't something that somebody can tell you about. It's what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.

Everything happens for a reason, even when we are not wise enough to see it. When there is no struggle, there is no strength.

I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

Live your best life!

The essential question is not, How busy are you?' but 'What are you busy at?' 'Are you doing what fulfills you?

Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that — that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else.

Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and my maintaining focus.

I always knew I was destined for greatness.

Whatever your calling, it's already rooted within you, and those roots can be trampled or tugged at but never removed. They grow stronger only when tended, nurtured, and most important, shared with others.

There is not one experience, no matter how devastating, no matter how tortuous it may appear to have been, there is nothing that's ever wasted. Everything that is happening to you is being drawn into your life as a means to help you evolve into who you were really meant to be here on Earth. It's not the thing that matters, it's what that thing opens within you. — Oprah

Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.

My primary and most essential goal in life is to remain connected to the world of spirit. Everything else will take care of itself—this I know for sure. And my number-one spiritual practice is trying to live in the present moment Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to resist projecting into the future, or lamenting past mistakes Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to feel the real power of now. That, my friends, is the secret to a joyful life.

My approach to living with purpose has always been to create the life I want, one conscious decision at a time.

Know what sparks the light in you. Then use that light to illuminate the world.