Quotes About Purpose

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Being prepared to die is one of the greatest secrets of living.

Never harbor regrets. Such useless emotions detract from an avowed purpose. Spare neither tears nor sentiment, which sap strength and energy. Rather, shake the dust of encumbering people and places from your feet and march bravely into the future. We are the women of the world, and we will not be denied.

The Gospel isn't a life management program. It shouldn't merely be the crutch we fall on when life gets ugly. It should be the legs we walk on, the air we breathe.

When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.

When Jesus isn't our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills.

Pieces. A bit for someone here. A bit there. And sometimes they don't add up to anything whole. But you are so busy dancing. Delivering. You don't have time to notice. Or are afraid to notice. And then one day you have to look. And it's true. All of your pieces fill up other people's holes. But they don't fill your own.

When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?

Tell me who I am. (29)

You've made your choice. It's for the best, then. We're each called somewhere else.

It's not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.