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Quotes About Purpose

Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.
~ Grace Slick
Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.
~ Haruki Murakami
Life is not having, it's wanting. Life is not taking, it's giving. Life is not dying, it's living.
~ Heather Dorff
That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.
~ Henry David Thoreau
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.
~ Henry Ford
If you haven't had your life what have you had?
~ Henry James
We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.
~ Horace Mann
Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I said "No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this."
~ Ian Mcewan
Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?
~ Ian Mcewan
But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.
~ J. K. Rowling
Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.
~ J. K. Rowling
Passion is the relentless pursuit of those life-enhancing activities or experiences that give our souls meaning.
~ Janet Hagberg
Most things in life are better when you just cut to the chase.
~ Jase Robertson
Life is simplified when there is one center; one reason, one motivation, one direction and purpose.
~ Jean Fleming
Life is a useless passion.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
After creating something and hearing from someone that it really helped them or changed their life motivates me to continue doing this.
~ Jeet Banerjee
When we come into this life, we don't really own anything. And we own nothing when we leave. It is only a lease we have during our lifetime, and it is up to us to make the most of it.
~ Jerold Panas
Life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you.
~ Jim Carrey
You can have average talent, but when God breathes on your life, you will go further than people that have great talent. Don't talk yourself out of it.
~ Joel Osteen
Your life is too valuable to waste being distracted.
~ Joel Osteen
To spend life for something which outlasts it.
~ William James
To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
~ William Osler
Motivation needs to be a part of your own life for you to be effective in conveying it to others.
~ Zig Ziglar