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Quotes About Purpose

Was soll uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen Geschaffenes zu nichts hinwegzuraffen!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It matters not how long we live but how.
~ Francis Bailey
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
~ Grace Paley
Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
~ Douglas Coupland
Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.
~ Alan Cohen
There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful
~ Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis
Be clear on where you are and where you want to go and you will get there. It can be the best year of your life.
~ Alan Cohen
At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.
~ Aldous Huxley
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
~ Aristotle
I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
~ Billie Jean King
...because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.
~ Chris Colfer
The purpose of life is to be happy.
~ Dalai Lama
The secret to a happy life is to recognize that no matter what the situation, there's a creative opportunity in it. Also, finding meaning and purpose in your life to make a contribution.
~ Deepak Chopra
Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something
~ James Redfield
Our goal should be that we're going to live life to the fullest, pursuing our passions and dreams, and when it comes our time to go, we will have used as much of our potential as possible.
~ Joel Osteen
Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
~ John Eldredge
Don't coast through life without a passion.
~ John Piper
Your Day Is Your Life
~ John Spence
If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.
~ Joseph Campbell
Knowing this to be a worthless life to live, why do I keep living on? Because this life contains something called beauty7.
~ Kafu Nagai
I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.
~ Lou Holtz
What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.
~ Margaret Fuller
Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your business, it is your ministry.
~ Marianne Williamson