Quotes About Purpose

I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

A life well used procures a happy death.

Happiness is not in the having or being- it is in the doing.

My life is not about the set list, it is to be set apart.

I was born to enjoy life. And so it is.

You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.

Where your attention goes, your life goes.

Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life.

If you're not satisfied with your life, it's time to invent a new one.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.

Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.

Life becomes interesting for the possibility to fulfill a dream.

Am like a Fire Fly, Charged to Execute my Flames to Light this World up, therefore, you have to Kill me to get out my Flame.

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.