Quotes About Purpose

If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.

Happiness is the object and design of our existence.

We are the architects of our own happiness

O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

My vision is to inspire others to find purpose and happiness.

If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.

Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness

To be busy is man's only happiness.

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

We must be doing something to be happy.

Maybe there was no happily ever after [...] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.

Seeking the kingdom of God leads to joy and happiness.

Happiness is a powerful thing. It freed me to do what I always wanted to do.

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.

Happiness is a by product of service.

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.

Happiness is the ultimate goal. It is the goal of all other goals.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.