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Quotes About Purpose

The purpose of life is to remember.
~ Henry Miller
Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow-- Then draw it to the head and let it go!
~ Henry Van Dyke
Without God, life is everything.
~ Joseph Simmons
Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.
~ Julian Barnes
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.
~ Mark Twain
When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.
~ Martin Yan
Life is too short to sleep it all away!
~ Mary Engelbreit
You should really stop worrying, develop the real wish to live and with a good motivation, [such as] "I have a better life and I can put that life at the benefit of others."
~ Matthieu Ricard
He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.
~ Max Stirner
If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.
~ Pete Maravich
I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics.
~ Oksana Chusovitina
The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
~ Ralph Waite
Well, I'm somebody who is just living ...living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right.
~ Richard Branson
Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT.
~ Rob Bell
Now that I know where this life is going, it's time to decide how I'll get there.
~ Susane Colasanti
It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.
~ Thomas a Kempis
I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.
~ Tom Ford
Life has its rhythm and we have ours. They're designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity.
~ Victoria Moran
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
~ Walter Kaufmann
Living the life you were destined to live.
~ Wayne Dyer
In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.
~ William Saroyan
The good life is one that's artistically made.
~ William Shatner
Most people don't why they are born or why they die. They have no understanding of the forces in life that pull them and push them to their death and another rebirth in this or another world.
~ Frederick Lenz