Quotes About Purpose

The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, have been some of the happiest times of my entire life.

Surely it is the right wish that draws us to the right place. Nothing of importance happens accidentally in our life.

I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

There's more to Life than this

Life either happens by design or default, you choose.

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.

Everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here

Most of us are so busy trying to manage, maintain, or even just survive our life situation, that we don't make time to focus on what's most important - our LIFE.

Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation.

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

Our job is not to figure out the 'how'. The 'how' will show up out of the commitment and believe in the 'what

I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.

No one is in your life by mistake.

I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.

Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.

Nothing in life has happened to you, it's happened FOR You!

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.