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Quotes About Purpose

We're all alive, but we don't know why or what for; we're all searching for happiness; we're all leading lives which are different and yet the same.
~ Anne Frank
The happy people are those who are producing something.
~ William Ralph Inge
Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.
~ L. Frank Baum
I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
~ Debbi Fields
There can be no joy in living without joy in work.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Live with the objective of being happy.
~ Anne Frank
There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.
~ Tony Robbins
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
~ Dr. Benjamin Spock
Where there is purpose, there is happiness as well.
~ Swami Abhedananda
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
~ Epicurus
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
~ Will Durant
Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.
~ David W Augsburger
The only way to cure the disease is to find happiness and meaning now.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.
~ Voltaire
If you dont see me on tour, its because I have found happiness away from winning, and that might be the biggest achievement I could ever accomplish.
~ Andy Irons
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
~ Helen Keller
Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness.
~ Agnes Martin
Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.
~ Roy Baumeister
Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To fill the hour??that is happiness.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.
~ Charles Addams