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âKnowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.â
â Lao Tzu
âThe soul is healed by being with childrenâ
â Fyodor Dostoevsky
âIf you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.â
â Benjamin Franklin
âThe privilege of a lifetime is being who you areâ
â Joseph Campbell
âThe meaning of life is just to be alive it is so plain and so obvious and so simple and yet everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselvesâ
â Alan Watts
âTwo roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the differenceâ
â Robert Frost
âTell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious lifeâ
â Mary Oliver
âSmile breathe and go slowlyâ
â Thich Nhat Hanh
âDo not ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it because what the world needs is people who have come aliveâ
â Howard Thurman
âOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate but that we are powerful beyond measureâ
â Marianne Williamson
âEveryone has a purpose in life a unique gift or special talent to give to othersâ
â Deepak Chopra
âHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the worldâ
â Anne Frank
âThe power plant does not have energy it generates energyâ
â Brendon Burchard
âLife can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwardsâ
â Soren Kierkegaard
âMake it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.â
â Miguel de Cervantes
âEvery action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to becomeâ
â James Clear
âYour work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great workâ
â Steve Jobs
âIt is not what happens to you but how you react to it that mattersâ
â Epictetus
âEducation is not preparation for life education is life itselfâ
â John Dewey
âLet each man think himself an act of God, his mind a thought, his life a breath of God.â
â Philip James Bailey
âI would rather die of passion than of boredomâ
â Vincent van Gogh
âWork is love made visibleâ
â Kahlil Gibran
âAct well your part; there all the honour lies.â
â Alexander Pope
âOne is not born but rather becomes a womanâ
â Simone de Beauvoir
âAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover themâ
â Galileo Galilei
âArrange whatever pieces come your wayâ
â Virginia Woolf
âMake your work to be in keeping with your purpose.â
â Leonardo da Vinci
âThe unexamined life is not worth livingâ
â Socrates
âAct as if what you do makes a difference. It does.â
â William James
âLife is either a daring adventure or nothing at allâ
â Helen Keller
âPeople do not buy what you do they buy why you do itâ
â Simon Sinek
âYou are today where your thoughts have brought you and you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take youâ
â James Allen
âDaring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable it means to show up and be seen to ask for what you need to talk about how you are feeling to have the hard conversationsâ
â Brene Brown
âSet a goal so big that if you achieved it it would blow your mindâ
â Bob Proctor
âAct as if what you do makes a difference it doesâ
âThe earth is what we all have in commonâ
â Wendell Berry
âYou need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every dayâ
â Liz Gilbert
âThe path to paradise begins in hellâ
â Dante Alighieri
âAnd suddenly you know its time to start something new and trust the magic of beginningsâ
â Meister Eckhart
âPeople may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find once they reach the top that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wallâ
â Thomas Merton
âThe mountains are calling and I must goâ
â John Muir
âTo live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is allâ
â Oscar Wilde
âThe only journey is the one withinâ
â Rainer Maria Rilke
âHow we spend our days is of course how we spend our livesâ
â Annie Dillard
âGod has no body now on earth but yours no hands but yours no feet but yoursâ
â Teresa of Avila
âFirst say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to doâ
âTry not to become a person of success but rather try to become a person of valueâ
â Albert Einstein
âThe best moments usually occur when a persons body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effortâ
â Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
âIf a man has not discovered something that he will die for he is not fit to liveâ
â Martin Luther King Jr.
âInstead of wondering when your next vacation is maybe you should set up a life you do not need to escape fromâ
â Seth Godin
âThe best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of othersâ
â Mahatma Gandhi
âThe purpose of our lives is to be happyâ
â Dalai Lama
âMake each day your masterpieceâ
â John Wooden
âIt always seems impossible until it is doneâ
â Nelson Mandela
âEvery time you are tempted to react in the same old way ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the futureâ
âIf you do not design your own life plan chances are you will fall into someone elses plan and guess what they have planned for you not muchâ
â Jim Rohn
âLive each present moment completely and the future will take care of itselfâ
â Paramahansa Yogananda
âIt is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of itâ
â Seneca
âThe present is theirs the future for which I really worked is mineâ
â Nikola Tesla
âShoot for the moon even if you miss you will land among the starsâ
â Norman Vincent Peale
âThe purpose of life is not to be happy it is to be useful to be honorable to be compassionate to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived wellâ
â Ralph Waldo Emerson
âNo one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of anotherâ
â Charles Dickens
âThe only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to beâ
âWith everything that has happened to you you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a giftâ
â Wayne Dyer
âChoose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your lifeâ
â Confucius
âThe ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its childrenâ
â Dietrich Bonhoeffer
âPlaying big does not mean having the biggest audience or the most impressive title it means being more loyal to your dreams than your fearsâ
â Tara Mohr
âIn the end these things matter most how well did you love how fully did you live how deeply did you let goâ
â Jack Kornfield
âWe think mistakenly that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work instead of the quality of time we put inâ
â Arianna Huffington
âThe main thing is to keep the main thing the main thingâ
â Stephen Covey
âThe purpose of life is a life of purpose.â
â Robert Byrne
âThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyesâ
â Marcel Proust
âAll journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unawareâ
â Martin Buber
âWe can do hard thingsâ
â Glennon Doyle
âThere is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling it is why you were born and how you become most truly aliveâ
â Oprah Winfrey
âWhat is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place?â
â Unknown
âBecoming is better than beingâ
â Carol Dweck
âThe miracle is not to walk on water the miracle is to walk on the green earth dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly aliveâ
âIf there is a book that you want to read but it has not been written yet then you must write itâ
â Toni Morrison
âThe winners in life think constantly in terms of I can I will and I amâ
â Denis Waitley
âMy mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and to do so with some passion some compassion some humor and some styleâ
â Maya Angelou
âIn the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summerâ
â Albert Camus
âThe best way to predict the future is to create itâ
â Peter Drucker
âEverything is figureoutableâ
â Marie Forleo
âThe person who lives in vain, lives for himself alone.â
â Publilius Syrus
âA creative life is an amplified life it is a bigger life a happier life an expanded life and a more interesting lifeâ
â Elizabeth Gilbert
âLife will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousnessâ
â Eckhart Tolle
âWe only find purpose in dialogue with others our identity is formed through recognitionâ
â Charles Taylor
âThe archer that shoots at random, without any mark to aim at, never hits the target.â
â Saadi Shirazi
âWe are all just walking each other homeâ
â Ram Dass
âAnd when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve itâ
â Paulo Coelho
âBe realistic plan for a miracleâ
â Osho
âOur goal should be to live life in radical amazementâ
â Abraham Heschel
âDwell in possibilityâ
â Emily Dickinson
âRemember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist be curiousâ
â Stephen Hawking
âBe less curious about people and more curious about ideasâ
â Marie Curie
âThe mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive but in finding something to live forâ
âI have always believed and I still believe that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of valueâ
â Hermann Hesse
âTo be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own controlâ
â Martha Nussbaum
âA man without purpose is like a ship without a rudder.â
â Thomas Carlyle
âThe good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledgeâ
â Bertrand Russell
âLife shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courageâ
â Anais Nin
âWhat counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived it is what difference we have made to the lives of othersâ
âEvery man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. Short therefore is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.â
â Marcus Aurelius
âI exist as I am that is enoughâ
â Walt Whitman
âPurpose lives at the intersection of what you love what you are good at what the world needs and what you can be paid forâ
â Ikigai Philosophy
âWhen I let go of what I am I become what I might beâ
âThe seed of God is in us if the seed had a good wise and industrious cultivator it would thrive all the more and grow up to Godâ
âKnowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdomâ
â Aristotle
âAll of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room aloneâ
â Blaise Pascal
âPurpose is not a destination to find it is a direction to travelâ
â Liz Forkin Bohannon
âWhat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within usâ
âThe fullness of joy is to behold God in everythingâ
â Julian of Norwich
âIt is never too late to be what you might have beenâ
â George Eliot
âThe aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware joyously drunkenly serenely divinely awareâ
â Henry Miller
âThe purpose of life is a life of purposeâ
âWaste no more time arguing about what a good man should be just be oneâ
âThe meaning of life is just to be alive it is so plain and so obvious and so simpleâ
âLife is never made unbearable by circumstances but only by lack of meaning and purposeâ
â Viktor Frankl
âWe know what we are but know not what we may beâ
â William Shakespeare
âWe make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we giveâ
â Winston Churchill
âYou must remain focused on your journey to greatnessâ
â Les Brown
âWhat a man can be he must be this need we call self-actualizationâ
â Abraham Maslow
âThe purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help othersâ
â Albert Schweitzer
âYour vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart who looks outside dreams who looks inside awakensâ
â Carl Jung
âWorking hard for something we do not care about is called stress working hard for something we love is called passionâ
âNot all of us can do great things but we can do small things with great loveâ
â Mother Teresa
âFollow your passion is bad advice deep work on rare and valuable skills is what creates a remarkable careerâ
â Cal Newport
âAnd ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separationâ
â Khalil Gibran
âIn the course of history there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness to reach a higher moral groundâ
â Wangari Maathai
âYou cannot find peace by avoiding lifeâ
âYou do not have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt you have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you are holdingâ
â Cheryl Strayed
âThe high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.â
âThe sign of a full life is that it has both a purpose that lifts it and a spontaneity that keeps it freshâ
â Sri Aurobindo
âThe secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.â
âTrue happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. Nor is it in the pursuit of pleasure, but in the discovery of purpose.â
â Ben Jonson
âIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick societyâ
â Jiddu Krishnamurti
âOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scarsâ
âIf you dont design your own life plan chances are you will fall into someone elses planâ
âI found I could say things with color and shapes that I could not say any other way things I had no words forâ
â Georgia OKeeffe
âIn order to succeed we must first believe that we canâ
â Nikos Kazantzakis
âThe purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answersâ
â James Baldwin
âEverything in the universe has a purpose. There is nothing that is useless or without reason.â
â Aztec Proverb
âYou were born to win but to be a winner you must plan to win prepare to win and expect to winâ
â Zig Ziglar
âLife isnt about finding yourself life is about creating yourselfâ
â George Bernard Shaw
âThe most fundamental aggression to ourselves is remaining ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestlyâ
â Pema Chodron
âWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experienceâ
â Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
âIt does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stopâ
âThe Spirit shall look out through matters gaze and matter shall reveal the spirits faceâ
âI have been impressed with the urgency of doing learning is not enough we must apply being willing is not enough we must doâ
âIn all things that you do, consider the end.â
â Solon
âWhat is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?â
âThe purpose of life is to live it to taste experience to the utmost to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experienceâ
â Eleanor Roosevelt
âThose who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lastsâ
â Rachel Carson
âWe are made for goodness we are made for love we are made for friendliness we are made for togethernessâ
â Desmond Tutu
âHe who has a why to live can bear almost any howâ
â Friedrich Nietzsche
âPain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heartâ
âBe not lax in celebrating be not lazy in the festive service of God be ablaze with enthusiasm let us be an alive burning offering before the altar of Godâ
â Hildegard of Bingen
âI believe that what we regret most are our failures of courage whether it is the courage to be kinder to show up to say how we feel to set boundaries to be good to ourselvesâ
âA journey of a thousand miles begins with a single stepâ
âNot life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.â
âThe present moment is filled with joy and happiness if you are attentiveâ
âThe meaning of life is to find your gift the purpose of life is to give it awayâ
â Pablo Picasso
âIn the end it is not the years in your life that count it is the life in your yearsâ
â Abraham Lincoln
âTo forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.â
âEnthusiasm is common endurance is rareâ
â Angela Duckworth
âPursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.â
â Henry David Thoreau
âLet each man exercise the art he knows.â
â Aristophanes
âThe most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeedâ
â Adam Grant
âEach player must accept the cards life deals him but once they are in hand he alone must decide how to play themâ
â Voltaire
âLet each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.â
â Sextus Propertius
âHold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken winged bird that cannot flyâ
â Langston Hughes
âYour purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to itâ
â Buddha
âSetting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visibleâ
â Tony Robbins
âWhat you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to makeâ
â Jane Goodall
âI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberatelyâ
âYou cannot lead the people if you do not love the people you cannot save the people if you do not serve the peopleâ
â Cornel West
âThe meaning of life is to find your gift the purpose of life is to share itâ
â Naval Ravikant
âFinding yourself is not really how it works you are not a ten-dollar bill in last winters coat pocket you are also not lost your true self is right here buried under cultural conditioningâ
â Emily McDowell
âHe who has a why to live for can bear almost any howâ
âMan is condemned to be free because once thrown into the world he is responsible for everything he doesâ
â Jean-Paul Sartre
âThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughtsâ
âThe main skill in life is figuring out what you want and pursuing itâ
âBe impeccable with your wordâ
â Don Miguel Ruiz
âI will live this day as if it is my lastâ
â Og Mandino
âThe most deeply motivated people hitch their desires to a cause larger than themselvesâ
â Daniel Pink
âThe proper function of man is to live not to existâ
â Jack London
âWhat you seek is seeking youâ
â Rumi
âWhere your talents and the needs of the world cross there lies your vocationâ
âLeadership is the capacity to translate vision into realityâ
â Warren Bennis
âA great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and further will enable a change in the destiny of all humankindâ
â Daisaku Ikeda
âNo man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same manâ
â Heraclitus
âWe delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beautyâ
âWhat we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.â
â Albert Pike
âIf you cant fly then run if you cant run then walk if you cant walk then crawl but whatever you do you have to keep moving forwardâ
â Martin Luther King Jr
âI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of lifeâ
âWithin you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourselfâ
âSomewhere something incredible is waiting to be knownâ
â Carl Sagan
âBetween stimulus and response there is a space and in that space is our freedom and power to chooseâ
âIf all mankind were to disappear the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago if insects were to vanish the environment would collapse into chaosâ
â E.O. Wilson
âNothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose â a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.â
â Mary Shelley
âThere is no success without hardshipâ
â Sophocles
âGreat minds have purposes, others have wishes.â
â Washington Irving
âToo many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fearsâ
âIf you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.â
â Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
âThose who have a why to live can bear with almost any howâ
âThe good life is a process not a state of beingâ
â Carl Rogers
âNo one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.â
âTo have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.â
â Stephen MacKenna
âThe most important thing is to find out what is the most important thingâ
â Shunryu Suzuki
âThe miracle that saves the world the realm of human affairs from its normal natural ruin is ultimately the fact of natalityâ
â Hannah Arendt
âOwning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we will ever doâ
âThe noblest question in the world is: What good may I do in it?â
âBe kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battleâ
â Plato
âHe who has a why to live can bear almost any how.â
âThe best moments in our lives are not the passive receptive relaxing times the best moments usually occur if a persons body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhileâ
âThe two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out whyâ
â Mark Twain
âA man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.â
âPurpose provides activation energy for livingâ
âA useless life is an early death.â
â Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
âI slept and dreamt that life was joy I awoke and saw that life was service I acted and behold service was joyâ
â Rabindranath Tagore
âThe meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.â
âI am no longer accepting the things I cannot change I am changing the things I cannot acceptâ
â Angela Davis
âYour need for acceptance can make you invisible in this worldâ
â Jim Carrey
âLife is not about finding yourself life is about creating yourselfâ
âThe place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the worlds deep hunger meetâ
â Frederick Buechner
âArise awake and stop not until the goal is reachedâ
â Swami Vivekananda
âAnd once the storm is over you wont remember how you made it through how you managed to survive you wont even be sure the storm is really over but when you come out of the storm you wont be the same person who walked inâ
â Haruki Murakami
âYou give but little when you give of your possessions it is when you give of yourself that you truly giveâ
âThe greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach itâ
â Michelangelo
âLearn silence with the learned speak with the ignorant in silence we growâ
â Pythagoras
âOnly those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can goâ
â T.S. Eliot
âWheresoever you go, go with all your heart.â
âA ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.â
â John A. Shedd
âThe mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.â
âFar and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doingâ
â Theodore Roosevelt
âAsk what makes you come alive and go do itâ
âArise awake and stop not till the goal is reachedâ
âDo unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto youâ
âLet yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love it will not lead you astrayâ
âYou were born with wings why prefer to crawl through lifeâ
âIt is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?â
âWithout work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.â
âThe purpose of life is to live a life of purposeâ
â Robin Sharma
âThe question is not who is going to let me but who is going to stop meâ
â Ayn Rand
âWhen you are inspired by some great purpose, all your thoughts break their bonds.â
â Patanjali
âIf you want to build a ship do not drum up people to collect wood but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the seaâ
â Antoine de Saint-Exupery
âWhen you know your purpose you understand why certain things matter and others do notâ
â Jay Shetty
âEvery person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.â
âThe archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.â
â Michel de Montaigne
âThe two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.â
âThe soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.â
âThe day will come when after harnessing the ether the winds the tides gravitation we shall harness for God the energies of loveâ
âThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreamsâ
âIn the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.â
âFollow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only wallsâ
âIn all things of nature there is something of the marvelous, and each has its purpose.â
âThe sole meaning of life is to serve humanityâ
â Leo Tolstoy
âTo see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hourâ
â William Blake
âEfforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.â
âThe purpose of man is in action, not thought.â
âAct as if what you do makes a difference because it doesâ
âHe who knows others is wise he who knows himself is enlightenedâ
âWho looks outside dreams who looks inside awakesâ
âEven after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me look what happens with a love like that it lights the whole skyâ
â Hafiz
âSow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.â
â Charles Reade
âInstead of wondering when your next vacation is maybe you should set up a life you dont need to escape fromâ
âStrive not to be a success but rather to be of valueâ
âThe two greatest days in a persons life are the day they were born and the day they discover whyâ
â John Maxwell
âThe bow too tensely strung is easily broken.â
âDo not die with your music still in youâ
âNature does not hurry yet everything is accomplishedâ
âWhen a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.â
âWe are part of this universe we are in this universe but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the universe is in usâ
â Neil deGrasse Tyson
âSkills are cheap passion is pricelessâ
â Gary Vaynerchuk
âThe purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.â
âYou are one decision away from a totally different lifeâ
â Mel Robbins
âI have not failed I have just found 10000 ways that wont workâ
â Thomas Edison
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