Quotes About Purpose

Are you making life or is life making you?

Nothing in life has happened to you. It's happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.

They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

Until you take ownership for your life, you will always be chasing happiness.

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.

Remember, you have only one ride through life so give it all you got and enjoy the ride.

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.

You get lost because you think there is somewhere to go. If you give up believing in a goal or a destination, then you cannot get lost. In the present moment, there is no destination.

If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.

My life is like a speeding bullet that just hasn't hit the target yet.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be

Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.

I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that.

Nothing could be more misdirected than a self-directed life.

Our Lord has created persons for all states in life, and in all of them we see people who who achieved sanctity by fulfilling their obligations well.

You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction