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Quotes About Purpose

Life is about fulfillment. If your life isn't fulfilled, your stomach can never supply what's missing.
~ Deepak Chopra
Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life.
~ Deepak Chopra
Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
~ Desmond Tutu
The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
When you begin to create the life of your dreams - or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you - you take responsibility to prepare for the future.
~ Erwin McManus
Life is what you do while you're waiting to die.
~ Fred Ebb
Dharma doesn't necessarily mean following a mundane and boring life. It means a life of high adventure, not a life of endless, boring repetition.
~ Frederick Lenz
Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.
~ Frederick Lenz
Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.
~ Frederick Lenz
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.
~ Frederick Lenz
Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
This life is made to change all reality. We are here for the benefit, happiness, and welfare of a new reality; a new direction.
~ Gerry Lindgren
Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, then to claim it: that is all!
~ Giovanni Giocondo
The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To live a better life,--this surely can be done.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?
~ Hill Harper
The purpose of human life is the dissolution of the soul and the revelation of the Spirit.
~ Ian Gardner
Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
~ Irving Stone
A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.
~ Jack London
Inactives-those whose feet are not placed on the path which leads to eternal life.
~ Jacob de Jager
I have fun with it and I am honest and open about the way I lead my life and don't mislead anyone. I've had the time of my life and thank God for that, it would be such a waste otherwise.
~ James Blunt
The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it--to do what I think is right and what I think is good.
~ Jaye Davidson
Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
~ John Piper
This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.
~ Jon Anderson