Quotes About Purpose

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life.

Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.

You get one life. I'm going to embrace mine.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

There is more to life than surviving.

I believe we are put on this earth to be of service. It's how I find meaning in my life. And it's fun!

I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

Don't say I gotta do anything in life. There is nothing you gotta do. But I want to.

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

Don't be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God's altitude for your life.

Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.

We still did not answer the questions that are important to us

Why do so many people chose to spend their whole life destroying paths they didn't even want to follow, instead of following the one path that would lead them somewhere.

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.