Quotes About Purpose

Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the passionate pursuit of something other than happiness.

The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness.

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.

The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell.

All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.

When people view their lives as insignificant, they escape using pleasure.

If you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.

I wish I had never been born, " she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness, " said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...

It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we have.

Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.

No man should ever completely realize his dreams. What else would there then be to live for?

Your purpose is your why.

If you are doing things in order to be happy...you're doing them in the wrong order.

The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!

Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going.

To pursue happiness for its own sake is the surest way to lose it.

If you follow your heart, you know true happiness.