Quotes About Purpose

We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil.

People living deeply have no fear of dying," wrote Anaïs Nin. Norman Cousins observed that "the great tragedy of life is not death but what we allow to die inside of us while we live.

There's no better time to become the human being you know you can be and handcraft the life of your most exuberant desires than now.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.

we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting.

Love provides the person with the purpose of his life. Intellect shows him the means to achieve that purpose." Leo Tolstoy

Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years.

when you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice.

There can be no happiness if there is a giant gap between the person you were meant to be and the person that you currently are. To close this gap, do small things well each day. Develop your intellectual base a little bit more. Be more loving. Be more innovative. Take more risks. Develop deeper relationships. And dream even 1% more.

Todos estamos aquí por una razón especial. Deja de ser un prisionero de tu pasado. Conviértete en arquitecto de tu futuro.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become." —Steve Jobs

Lasting happiness,' Julian wrote, 'comes from the size of our impact, not the extent of our income. Real fulfillment is a product of the value we create and the contribution we make, not of the car we drive or the house we buy. And I've learned that self-worth is more important than net worth. But I think you know that already.

At the end of your life, when you strip away all the accessories that are important to us now, only 3 things will be important: 1. Have you lived wisely? 2. Have you loved richly? 3. And have you served the world greatly?

Do not betray the powers that sleep within you by staying too late in a soft bed that keeps you sedated.

decide to be brilliant at what you do. And in how you live.

The saddest part of life lies not in the act of dying, but in failing to truly live while we are alive.

Living this way will inevitably lead you to spiritual success.

Find your calling. I believe we all have special talents that are just waiting to be engaged in a worthy pursuit. We are all here for some unique purpose, some noble objective that will allow us to manifest our highest human potential while we, at the same time, add value to the lives around us.

I am an artist at living — my work of art is my life.

You can find your cause—your crusade—exactly where you are. No one has to leave a job to find something to engage their heart and excite them. Often all that is required is that a person see things differently. And to take that first step. Today.

What would I do today if it was my last?

One of the lessons I have learned in my own life is that if you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you. The days slip into weeks, the weeks slip into months and the months slip into years. Pretty soon it's all over and you are left with nothing more than a heart filled with regret over a life half lived.

The smallest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions.