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Quotes About Purpose

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living
~ Winston Churchill
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isnt it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am askedas I am surprisingly oftenwhy I bother to get up in the mornings.
~ Richard Dawkins
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
~ Douglas Adams
The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have and we live i
~ Anne Sexton
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song.
~ Charles Kingsley
To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.
~ Joseph Campbell
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
~ Kate Winslet
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
~ Albert Schweitzer
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
~ Elton Trueblood
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
~ Plutarch
As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.
~ Buddha
If my life is of no value to my friends, then it is of no value to me.
~ Joseph Smith
When we allow our conscience to be our guide, then our purpose in life will be fullfilled.
~ Unknown
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
~ Joseph Campbell
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
~ Jim Rohn
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
~ Shirley MacLaine
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
~ Richard Bach
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
~ Harvey Mackay
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
~ DH Lawrence
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
~ Nido Qubein