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Quotes About Purpose

The wisest thing you'll ever do in this life is to draw close to God and to seek Him with all your heart.
~ Bob Sorge
The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .
~ Jakob Bohme
We are not born to survive. Only to live.
~ W. S. Merwin
In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
~ William Allen White
Your life has little purpose if you are separate from your own knowledge within.
~ John de Ruiter
I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself... the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't long. So get on with it!
~ Kylie Minogue
How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you - for that is the meaning of your life.
~ Martin Buber
Sometimes life is not about what u want to do but what u ought to do
~ Chetan Bhagat
I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books... really is important.
~ Cynthia Rylant
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering
~ Bruce Lee
I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.
~ Christopher Reeve
I have a rendezvous with life.
~ Countee Cullen
Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
~ Dalai Lama
Small, deliberate actions inspired by your true desires create a life you love.
~ Danielle LaPorte
Don't feel obligated to spend time with people who pull you off the path of your life purpose.
~ Doreen Virtue
Safety is knowing that when this particular life form is finished, what it has served remains.
~ Gangaji
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
~ Hugo Grotius
Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.
~ J. I. Packer
If you would get a contented life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to.
~ Jeremiah
You can only do two things with your life: give it away or throw it away.
~ Ron White
To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise.
~ Susanna Tamaro
The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
~ Thomas Merton