Quotes About Purpose

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.

I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.

The first time I stepped on stage in the local theatre I knew what I needed to do - I knew I had found the right place to be.

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

The theme of the Labor Department's centennial is 'Then, Now, Next.' So in honoring Esther Peterson, we look not just to the past but to the future, acknowledging with honesty and a sense of purpose the lingering challenges we still face and the distance we've yet to travel before equality is truly a reality in the lives of all women.

Starting clean is a theme for me - starting fresh and understanding what's important about life.

There is a theme to my broadcasting career - I've never done anything just for the money.

Do what makes your heart beat.

No one can live your life but you, Maggie. But if you find a way to use your talents to help people I think you'll be happier.

Am I staying here? I came here because I believed I'd lost everything that mattered, and ended up finding everything I've ever wanted in the world. Yeah, Joey. I'm staying. Jack's here. Besides, I belong here now. I belong to them. They belong to me.

All she wanted was to matter. To be more than an opportunity. That's all.

One of the things I think about a lot when I'm alone is what makes a life well spent? It sounds like you described one.

I needed a purpose greater than myself.

But I do know that I spent a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.

Here's a secret," I said. "There's a difference between being dead and dying. We're all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it.

But the thing was:although I might not have been dying,I wasn't really living,either

because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but I do know that I spent a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.

There's this poem," Cassidy finally said, "by Mary Oliver. And I used to write a line from it in all of my school notebooks to remind myself that I didn't have to be embarrassed of the past and afraid of the future. And it helped. So I'm giving it to you. The line is, 'Tell me, what is it you plan to do/With your one wild and precious life?

By the time I packed up, I wondered if I'd really been looking for Cassidy after all, or if I'd been hoping to find myself.

She was determined to figure out who I wanted to be