Quotes About Purpose

At 33 years old, I didn't have to work anymore. I had to search through 'What am I going to do for the rest of my life?' I wasn't ready to fly-fish for the rest of my life.

I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.

I've always been searching. What am I going to do with all this - searching for that place where I could be me.

I want to be a good cricketer, but I am a person first and a cricketer second. I won't always be a cricketer, but I will always be a person.

Secretly incredible people keep what they do as one of God's best-kept secrets because the only one who needs to know - the God of the universe - already knows.

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.

I feel that I was chosen to do it. It's taken me all over the world and given me opportunities to take care of my family and give me experiences that I would not have had. I think about those things and what I owe to the game.

The biggest misconception about my game is my love for it. This is what I want to do. I owe this thing my life. There's no other way around it.

I want everything and anything I can get from this game. Because in reality, I owe this game my life.

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

People think that because people do religious stuff, that's all we're supposed to do. But with God's help, everything that He wants me to accomplish, I'm going to do it. It's all about pacing.

I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.

I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.

Everyone feels at times like they're missing a page or two out of the handbook that tells you how to live your life.

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.

I have the best job in the whole world because I get paid to do something I love. How many people do you know who can say that?

The pain of retirement means loss.

Work is a salvation. Work is how you connect with who you are, no matter how painful it might be.

All painful events have a purpose, and mine has made my life what it is today.

I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.