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π― Purpose
βPain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heartβ
β Fyodor Dostoevsky
βWhen you are inspired by some great purpose, all your thoughts break their bonds.β
β Patanjali
βEach player must accept the cards life deals him but once they are in hand he alone must decide how to play themβ
β Voltaire
βThe privilege of a lifetime is being who you areβ
β Joseph Campbell
βSet a goal so big that if you achieved it it would blow your mindβ
β Bob Proctor
βArise awake and stop not till the goal is reachedβ
β Swami Vivekananda
βArise awake and stop not until the goal is reachedβ
βThe present is theirs the future for which I really worked is mineβ
β Nikola Tesla
βWhat 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?β
β Unknown
βWithin you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourselfβ
β Hermann Hesse
βLife shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courageβ
β Anais Nin
βWe 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 usβ
β Neil deGrasse Tyson
βWhen you know your purpose you understand why certain things matter and others do notβ
β Jay Shetty
βAll journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unawareβ
β Martin Buber
βThe best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of othersβ
β Mahatma Gandhi
βThe unexamined life is not worth livingβ
β Socrates
βThe mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive but in finding something to live forβ
βThe purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help othersβ
β Albert Schweitzer
βIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick societyβ
β Jiddu Krishnamurti
βShoot for the moon even if you miss you will land among the starsβ
β Norman Vincent Peale
βThose who have a why to live can bear with almost any howβ
β Viktor Frankl
βThe Spirit shall look out through matters gaze and matter shall reveal the spirits faceβ
β Sri Aurobindo
βRemember 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 curiousβ
β Stephen Hawking
βAct as if what you do makes a difference. It does.β
β William James
βYour purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to itβ
β Buddha
βYour 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 workβ
β Steve Jobs
βI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of lifeβ
β Henry David Thoreau
βThe place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the worlds deep hunger meetβ
β Frederick Buechner
βWheresoever you go, go with all your heart.β
β Confucius
βIt is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of itβ
β Seneca
βThe meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.β
βIf 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 forwardβ
β Martin Luther King Jr
βLet yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love it will not lead you astrayβ
β Rumi
βI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberatelyβ
βNot all of us can do great things but we can do small things with great loveβ
β Mother Teresa
βThe meaning of life is to find your gift the purpose of life is to give it awayβ
β Pablo Picasso
βLet each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.β
β Sextus Propertius
βOur goal should be to live life in radical amazementβ
β Abraham Heschel
βWe only find purpose in dialogue with others our identity is formed through recognitionβ
β Charles Taylor
βOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scarsβ
β Khalil Gibran
βTo have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.β
β Stephen MacKenna
βDo not die with your music still in youβ
β Wayne Dyer
βThe meaning of life is just to be alive it is so plain and so obvious and so simpleβ
β Alan Watts
βHe who has a why to live can bear almost any howβ
β Friedrich Nietzsche
βThe 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.β
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
βBe kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battleβ
β Plato
βIf you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.β
β Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
βWe are all just walking each other homeβ
β Ram Dass
βYour need for acceptance can make you invisible in this worldβ
β Jim Carrey
βLife can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwardsβ
β Soren Kierkegaard
βPeople 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 wallβ
β Thomas Merton
βHe who has a why to live can bear almost any how.β
βYou cannot lead the people if you do not love the people you cannot save the people if you do not serve the peopleβ
β Cornel West
βThe good life is a process not a state of beingβ
β Carl Rogers
βChoose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your lifeβ
βSmile breathe and go slowlyβ
β Thich Nhat Hanh
βOne is not born but rather becomes a womanβ
β Simone de Beauvoir
βSetting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visibleβ
β Tony Robbins
βThe purpose of life is to live it to taste experience to the utmost to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experienceβ
β Eleanor Roosevelt
βThe purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answersβ
β James Baldwin
βIf you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.β
β Benjamin Franklin
βHow we spend our days is of course how we spend our livesβ
β Annie Dillard
βTo live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is allβ
β Oscar Wilde
βBe impeccable with your wordβ
β Don Miguel Ruiz
βHe who has a why to live for can bear almost any howβ
βLife is either a daring adventure or nothing at allβ
β Helen Keller
βThe proper function of man is to live not to existβ
β Jack London
βEfforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.β
βThe ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its childrenβ
β Dietrich Bonhoeffer
βIn the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summerβ
β Albert Camus
βThe two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out whyβ
β Mark Twain
βIf you dont design your own life plan chances are you will fall into someone elses planβ
β Jim Rohn
βA useless life is an early death.β
β Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
βPurpose is not a destination to find it is a direction to travelβ
β Liz Forkin Bohannon
βIt always seems impossible until it is doneβ
β Nelson Mandela
βAsk what makes you come alive and go do itβ
β Howard Thurman
βTrue 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.β
β Ben Jonson
βEven 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 skyβ
β Hafiz
βThe 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 itβ
β Michelangelo
βWorking hard for something we do not care about is called stress working hard for something we love is called passionβ
β Simon Sinek
βFar and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doingβ
β Theodore Roosevelt
βDo 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 aliveβ
βSomewhere something incredible is waiting to be knownβ
β Carl Sagan
βIn all things of nature there is something of the marvelous, and each has its purpose.β
β Aristotle
βMake it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.β
β Miguel de Cervantes
βAnd ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separationβ
βThe sole meaning of life is to serve humanityβ
β Leo Tolstoy
βMake each day your masterpieceβ
β John Wooden
βPurpose lives at the intersection of what you love what you are good at what the world needs and what you can be paid forβ
β Ikigai Philosophy
βKnowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.β
β Lao Tzu
βThe winners in life think constantly in terms of I can I will and I amβ
β Denis Waitley
βThe good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledgeβ
β Bertrand Russell
βGreat minds have purposes, others have wishes.β
β Washington Irving
βThe day will come when after harnessing the ether the winds the tides gravitation we shall harness for God the energies of loveβ
β Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
βIn order to succeed we must first believe that we canβ
β Nikos Kazantzakis
βThe only journey is the one withinβ
β Rainer Maria Rilke
βThe most deeply motivated people hitch their desires to a cause larger than themselvesβ
β Daniel Pink
βIf there is a book that you want to read but it has not been written yet then you must write itβ
β Toni Morrison
βI 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 valueβ
βYou were born to win but to be a winner you must plan to win prepare to win and expect to winβ
β Zig Ziglar
βA man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.β
β Kahlil Gibran
βThe secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.β
βInstead of wondering when your next vacation is maybe you should set up a life you do not need to escape fromβ
β Seth Godin
βWe can do hard thingsβ
β Glennon Doyle
βIt is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?β
βBetween stimulus and response there is a space and in that space is our freedom and power to chooseβ
βFinding 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 conditioningβ
β Emily McDowell
βAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover themβ
β Galileo Galilei
βThe purpose of life is to live a life of purposeβ
β Robin Sharma
βThe best moments usually occur when a persons body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effortβ
β Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
βIt is never too late to be what you might have beenβ
β George Eliot
βThe main skill in life is figuring out what you want and pursuing itβ
β Brendon Burchard
βWork is love made visibleβ
βEducation is not preparation for life education is life itselfβ
β John Dewey
βThe purpose of our lives is to be happyβ
β Dalai Lama
βDwell in possibilityβ
β Emily Dickinson
βEverything is figureoutableβ
β Marie Forleo
βThe path to paradise begins in hellβ
β Dante Alighieri
βThe main thing is to keep the main thing the main thingβ
β Stephen Covey
βYou must remain focused on your journey to greatnessβ
β Les Brown
βThe soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.β
β Michel de Montaigne
βLeadership is the capacity to translate vision into realityβ
β Warren Bennis
βYou cannot find peace by avoiding lifeβ
β Virginia Woolf
βThe fullness of joy is to behold God in everythingβ
β Julian of Norwich
βFirst say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to doβ
β Epictetus
βWe 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 inβ
β Arianna Huffington
βWe know what we are but know not what we may beβ
β William Shakespeare
βA creative life is an amplified life it is a bigger life a happier life an expanded life and a more interesting lifeβ
β Elizabeth Gilbert
βYou are today where your thoughts have brought you and you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take youβ
β James Allen
βEvery person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.β
βWhat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within usβ
βAct as if what you do makes a difference it doesβ
βInstead of wondering when your next vacation is maybe you should set up a life you dont need to escape fromβ
βLearn silence with the learned speak with the ignorant in silence we growβ
β Pythagoras
βYou need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every dayβ
β Liz Gilbert
βThe question is not who is going to let me but who is going to stop meβ
β Ayn Rand
βStrive not to be a success but rather to be of valueβ
β Albert Einstein
βThe soul is healed by being with childrenβ
βNo one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of anotherβ
β Charles Dickens
βEnthusiasm is common endurance is rareβ
β Angela Duckworth
βMan is condemned to be free because once thrown into the world he is responsible for everything he doesβ
β Jean-Paul Sartre
βAnd when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve itβ
β Paulo Coelho
βI found I could say things with color and shapes that I could not say any other way things I had no words forβ
β Georgia OKeeffe
βBe less curious about people and more curious about ideasβ
β Marie Curie
βLife isnt about finding yourself life is about creating yourselfβ
β George Bernard Shaw
βI exist as I am that is enoughβ
β Walt Whitman
βThe person who lives in vain, lives for himself alone.β
β Publilius Syrus
βYou give but little when you give of your possessions it is when you give of yourself that you truly giveβ
βNo one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.β
βTell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious lifeβ
β Mary Oliver
βIf 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 muchβ
βWithout work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.β
βHold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken winged bird that cannot flyβ
β Langston Hughes
βI will live this day as if it is my lastβ
β Og Mandino
βIn the end it is not the years in your life that count it is the life in your yearsβ
β Abraham Lincoln
βEvery 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.β
β Marcus Aurelius
βThe meaning of life is to find your gift the purpose of life is to share itβ
β Naval Ravikant
βOnly those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can goβ
β T.S. Eliot
βOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate but that we are powerful beyond measureβ
β Marianne Williamson
βThe present moment is filled with joy and happiness if you are attentiveβ
βArrange whatever pieces come your wayβ
βNo man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same manβ
β Heraclitus
βWhat you seek is seeking youβ
βBe realistic plan for a miracleβ
β Osho
βBecoming is better than beingβ
β Carol Dweck
βWhat is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place?β
βThe 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 aliveβ
βI would rather die of passion than of boredomβ
β Vincent van Gogh
βPursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.β
βLet each man exercise the art he knows.β
β Aristophanes
βTry not to become a person of success but rather try to become a person of valueβ
βThere 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 aliveβ
β Oprah Winfrey
βThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreamsβ
βA ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.β
β John A. Shedd
βLife is not about finding yourself life is about creating yourselfβ
βThe archer that shoots at random, without any mark to aim at, never hits the target.β
β Saadi Shirazi
βWhen I let go of what I am I become what I might beβ
βOwning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we will ever doβ
β Brene Brown
βA journey of a thousand miles begins with a single stepβ
βThe 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 themselvesβ
βI am no longer accepting the things I cannot change I am changing the things I cannot acceptβ
β Angela Davis
βThe 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 worthwhileβ
βIt is not what happens to you but how you react to it that mattersβ
βFollow your passion is bad advice deep work on rare and valuable skills is what creates a remarkable careerβ
β Cal Newport
βWhat counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived it is what difference we have made to the lives of othersβ
βA 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 humankindβ
β Daisaku Ikeda
βPurpose provides activation energy for livingβ
βThe most important thing is to find out what is the most important thingβ
β Shunryu Suzuki
βWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experienceβ
βYou are one decision away from a totally different lifeβ
β Mel Robbins
βThere is no success without hardshipβ
β Sophocles
