531 quotes
“Chase your passion, not your pension.”
— Denis Waitley
“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
— William James
“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions hidden by the answers”
— James Baldwin
“Work is love made visible”
— Kahlil Gibran
“When I let go of what I am I become what I might be”
— Lao Tzu
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the worlds deep hunger meet”
— Frederick Buechner
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
— John A. Shedd
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
— Rumi
“True 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.”
— Ben Jonson
“Act as if what you do makes a difference because it does”
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life”
— Mary Oliver
“We only find purpose in dialogue with others our identity is formed through recognition”
— Charles Taylor
“I 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 ourselves”
— Brene Brown
“Between stimulus and response there is a space and in that space is our freedom and power to choose”
— Viktor Frankl
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
— Unknown
“The 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.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Daring 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 conversations”
“The question is not who is going to let me but who is going to stop me”
— Ayn Rand
“The purpose of life is to live it to taste experience to the utmost to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“It is never too late to be what you might have been”
— George Eliot
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
— Khalil Gibran
“The 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”
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, all your thoughts break their bonds.”
— Patanjali
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing”
— Stephen Covey
“The best way to predict the future is to create it”
— Peter Drucker
“There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because they have a place to fill.”
— Deepak Chopra
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
— Aristotle
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate but that we are powerful beyond measure”
— Marianne Williamson
“Education is not preparation for life education is life itself”
— John Dewey
“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it”
— Buddha
“The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“If 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 sea”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty”
— Maya Angelou
“Be 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 God”
— Hildegard of Bingen
“If there is a book that you want to read but it has not been written yet then you must write it”
— Toni Morrison
“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement”
— Abraham Heschel
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart who looks outside dreams who looks inside awakens”
— Carl Jung
“Let each man think himself an act of God, his mind a thought, his life a breath of God.”
— Philip James Bailey
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life”
— Virginia Woolf
“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world”
— Jim Carrey
“Your time is limited so dont waste it living someone elses life.”
— Steve Jobs
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”
— Martin Luther
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy”
— Dalai Lama
“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”
“The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.”
— Plutarch
“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.”
— Stephen Hawking
“You were born to win but to be a winner you must plan to win prepare to win and expect to win”
— Zig Ziglar
“All of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone”
— Blaise Pascal
“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you”
— Wendell Berry
“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.”
— John F. Kennedy
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.”
“The ship is safest when it is in port, but thats not what ships were built for.”
— Paulo Coelho
“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life”
— Confucius
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all”
— Helen Keller
“What 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?”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be useful honorable and compassionate”
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Follow your passion is bad advice deep work on rare and valuable skills is what creates a remarkable career”
— Cal Newport
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy and healing is the path to that happiness”
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
“The power plant does not have energy it generates energy”
— Brendon Burchard
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can I will and I am”
“Whoever does not know how to find his way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.”
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness”
— Eckhart Tolle
“The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware joyously drunkenly serenely divinely aware”
— Henry Miller
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances but only by lack of meaning and purpose”
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts”
— Rachel Carson
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Between your birth and your death, there is the life you lived and the life you wished you had lived. Make them the same.”
— Thiruvalluvar
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation”
“Between your birth and your death there is a unique opportunity; do not let it slip by unlived.”
“Those who have a why to live can bear with almost any how”
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how”
“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.”
“The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.”
— Publilius Syrus
“The 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 it”
— Michelangelo
“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself”
— Hermann Hesse
“The soul that has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it.”
— Seneca
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we will ever do”
“Everything in the universe has a purpose. There is nothing that is useless or without reason.”
— Aztec Proverb
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity”
— Leo Tolstoy
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy and to help others find happiness”
“Learn silence with the learned speak with the ignorant in silence we grow”
— Pythagoras
“I will live this day as if it is my last”
— Og Mandino
“What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other within our families.”
“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.”
— Anaïs Nin
“First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do”
— Epictetus
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas”
— Marie Curie
“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
“We do not live for the sake of living, but to do something worth the while.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.”
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
— Herbert Spencer
“Becoming is better than being”
— Carol Dweck
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
— Charles Darwin
“We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I do not know but time will tell”
— W.H. Auden
“What you seek is seeking you”
“In everyone life there is a flame that can be dimmed or used to cast warmth and light.”
“The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without a purpose.”
— Immanuel Kant
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”
“All life is yoga and the meeting of the human and the divine is its ultimate purpose.”
— Sri Aurobindo
“It is not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters”
“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Connection is why we are here. It is what gives purpose and meaning to our family lives.”
“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”
“If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain”
— Emily Dickinson
“You are one decision away from a totally different life”
— Mel Robbins
“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers”
“Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
— Albert Camus
“Remember 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 curious”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes”
— Marcel Proust
“To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive but in finding something to live for”
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
“Purpose lives at the intersection of what you love what you are good at what the world needs and what you can be paid for”
— Ikigai Philosophy
“A thousand-mile journey begins with a single step, and a life of purpose begins with a single honest thought.”
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change I am changing the things I cannot accept”
— Angela Davis
“The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside us while we live.”
— Norman Cousins
“True happiness arises from the good use of all the powers of the soul applied to good objects.”
— François Fénelon
“Ask what makes you come alive and go do it”
— Howard Thurman
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“Your 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 work”
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.”
“Lead me O God and thou O Destiny to the goal which you have ordained for me”
— Cleanthes
“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly”
— Langston Hughes
“The unexamined life is not worth living”
— Socrates
“I would like to make a film to tell children its good to be alive”
— Hayao Miyazaki
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it”
“A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.”
“If 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 forward”
— Martin Luther King Jr
“Be realistic plan for a miracle”
— Osho
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are”
— Joseph Campbell
“The most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed”
— Adam Grant
“Musicians do not retire they stop when there is no more music in them”
— Louis Armstrong
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately”
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose”
— Robert Byrne
“The day will come when after harnessing the ether the winds the tides gravitation we shall harness for God the energies of love”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality”
— Warren Bennis
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I could not say any other way things I had no words for”
— Georgia OKeeffe
“If you feel something calling you to dance or paint or sing, it is the length of your life speaking to you.”
“And when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it”
“Everyone has a purpose in life a unique gift or special talent to give to others”
“In all things that you do, consider the end.”
— Solon
“Smile breathe and go slowly”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be”
“Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.”
— Sophocles
“It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
“Minimalism is a tool to get rid of excess in favor of what matters”
— Fumio Sasaki
“The proper function of man is to live not to exist”
— Jack London
“If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.”
— Mary Webb
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
“The Spirit shall look out through matters gaze and matter shall reveal the spirits face”
“The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself the more energy you will have.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“Playing big does not mean having the biggest audience or the most impressive title it means being more loyal to your dreams than your fears”
— Tara Mohr
“Everything is figureoutable”
— Marie Forleo
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible”
— Tony Robbins
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
— Mark Twain
“Every person born into this world their work is born with them.”
— James Russell Lowell
“You must remain focused on your journey to greatness”
— Les Brown
“Shoot for the moon even if you miss you will land among the stars”
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is maybe you should set up a life you dont need to escape from”
— Seth Godin
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.”
“If you feel a burning desire within you, it is because you were meant to follow it.”
“The secret of life is to have a task something you devote your entire life to something you bring everything to every minute of the day for the rest of your life”
— Henry Moore
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware”
— Martin Buber
“The sign of a full life is that it has both a purpose that lifts it and a spontaneity that keeps it fresh”
“The 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 God”
— Meister Eckhart
“To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.”
— Stephen MacKenna
“Purpose is not a destination to find it is a direction to travel”
— Liz Forkin Bohannon
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“The only journey is the one within”
“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.”
— Washington Irving
“There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
— Edith Wharton
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy I awoke and saw that life was service I acted and behold service was joy”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why”
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others and if you cannot help them at least do not hurt them and faith guides this intention”
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose there are no mistakes and no coincidences all events are blessings given to us to learn from”
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Skills are cheap passion is priceless”
— Gary Vaynerchuk
“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.”
— Horace Mann
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
— Plato
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
— King Solomon
“If 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 much”
— Jim Rohn
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate.”
— Robin Sharma
“When you know your purpose you understand why certain things matter and others do not”
— Jay Shetty
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now.”
— Stephen Grellet
“If a man has not discovered something that he will die for he is not fit to live”
“Each player must accept the cards life deals him but once they are in hand he alone must decide how to play them”
— Voltaire
“The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?”
— Bob Marley
“There 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 alive”
— Oprah Winfrey
“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others”
“In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer”
“If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your own path.”
— Nichiren
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become”
— James Clear
“Less is only more where more is no good”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life in pursuit of peace.”
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference”
— Robert Frost
“Nature does nothing in vain.”
— Baruch Spinoza
“Arise awake and stop not till the goal is reached”
— Swami Vivekananda
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls”
“We know what we are but know not what we may be”
— William Shakespeare
“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery.”
— Maxim Gorky
“We 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 in”
— Arianna Huffington
“We are all just walking each other home”
— Ram Dass
“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man”
— Heraclitus
“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
— Albert Pike
“Do 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 alive”
“Life well spent is long.”
“Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.”
— Sextus Propertius
“Life isnt about finding yourself life is about creating yourself”
“The 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 worthwhile”
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Finding 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 conditioning”
— Emily McDowell
“The two greatest days in a persons life are the day they were born and the day they discover why”
— John Maxwell
“When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”
“There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it”
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things”
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness if you are attentive”
“Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value”
— Albert Einstein
“We 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 us”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another”
— Charles Dickens
“The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything”
— Julian of Norwich
“The most important thing is to find out what is the most important thing”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth”
— Muhammad Ali
“It always seems impossible until it is done”
— Nelson Mandela
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world”
— Anne Frank
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love it will not lead you astray”
“The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.”
“The path to paradise begins in hell”
— Dante Alighieri
“The meaning of life is to find your gift the purpose of life is to share it”
— Naval Ravikant
“If there is a book that you want to read, but it has not been written yet, you must be the one to write it.”
“If you dont design your own life plan chances are you will fall into someone elses plan”
“There is no success without hardship”
“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“We make war that we may live in peace.”
“One is not born but rather becomes a woman”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”
— Ecclesiastes 3:1
“Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
— Mary Shelley
“You give but little when you give of your possessions it is when you give of yourself that you truly give”
“Make each day your masterpiece”
— John Wooden
“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
— Allan K. Chalmers
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
“People 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 wall”
— Thomas Merton
“The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.”
“Arrange whatever pieces come your way”
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience”
“Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known”
— Carl Sagan
“In the end these things matter most how well did you love how fully did you live how deeply did you let go”
— Jack Kornfield
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts”
“Let each man exercise the art he knows.”
— Aristophanes
“And suddenly you know its time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings”
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
“To 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 hour”
— William Blake
“The soul that is without a fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Do not ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it”
“The archer that shoots at random, without any mark to aim at, never hits the target.”
— Saadi Shirazi
— Dostoevsky
“Man is condemned to be free because once thrown into the world he is responsible for everything he does”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“Act as if what you do makes a difference it does”
“The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.”
— Saint John Chrysostom
“Try not to become a person of success but rather try to become a person of value”
“Even 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 sky”
— Hafiz
“Act well your part; there all the honour lies.”
— Alexander Pope
“Arise awake and stop not until the goal is reached”
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom”
“In the end it is not the years in your life that count it is the life in your years”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams”
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Where there is love there is life.”
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage”
— Anais Nin
“Connection is why we are here it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be just be one”
“Every 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.”
“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
“Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”
— Charles Reade
“We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give”
— Winston Churchill
“Purpose provides activation energy for living”
— Daniel Pink
“Connection is why we are here it gives purpose and meaning to our lives”
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
“Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress working hard for something we love is called passion”
— Simon Sinek
“Find the intersection of what you love what you are good at what the world needs and what you can be paid for”
“One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.”
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous, and each has its purpose.”
“I 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 value”
“The person who lives in vain, lives for himself alone.”
“Do not die with your music still in you”
— Wayne Dyer
“What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make”
— Jane Goodall
“We can do hard things”
— Glennon Doyle
“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
— Rosa Parks
“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
“Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny. They have something to fulfill some message to deliver some work to complete.”
“We are made for goodness we are made for love we are made for friendliness we are made for togetherness”
— Desmond Tutu
“A useless life is an early death.”
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears”
“Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement”
— W. Clement Stone
“You 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 holding”
— Cheryl Strayed
“The most deeply motivated people hitch their desires to a cause larger than themselves”
“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose in the family.”
“In 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 ground”
— Wangari Maathai
“The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
“The artist exists because the world is not perfect”
— Andrei Tarkovsky
“The proper function of family is to live not to exist merely.”
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations.”
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop”
“A man without purpose is like a ship without a rudder.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“And 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 in”
— Haruki Murakami
“Who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
“The world is imprisoned in its own activity, except when actions are performed as worship of God.”
“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”
“The meaning of life is just to be alive it is so plain and so obvious and so simple”
— Alan Watts
“In dreams begins responsibility.”
— William Butler Yeats
“Dwell in possibility”
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves is remaining ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestly”
— Pema Chodron
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them”
— Galileo Galilei
“To live without Hope is to Cease to live.”
“Not all of us can do great things but we can do small things with great love”
— Mother Teresa
“God has no body now on earth but yours no hands but yours no feet but yours”
— Teresa of Avila
— Pablo Picasso
“What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place?”
“The 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 alive”
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how”
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
“What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other”
“The good life is a process not a state of being”
— Carl Rogers
“The miracle that saves the world the realm of human affairs from its normal natural ruin is ultimately the fact of natality”
— Hannah Arendt
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross there lies your vocation”
“I exist as I am that is enough”
— Walt Whitman
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.”
— Vaclav Havel
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the worlds deep hunger meet.”
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
“The earth is what we all have in common”
“With everything that has happened to you you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift”
“People do not buy what you do they buy why you do it”
“Every 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 future”
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”
“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
— Lewis Carroll
“Live each present moment completely and the future will take care of itself”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“The main skill in life is figuring out what you want and pursuing it”
“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
— Baltasar Gracián
“I have not failed I have just found 10000 ways that wont work”
— Thomas Edison
“Set a goal so big that if you achieved it it would blow your mind”
— Bob Proctor
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge”
— Bertrand Russell
“We must cultivate our garden.”
“Hopeful determination is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.”
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you and you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you”
— James Allen
“Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”
— William Cowper
“A creative life is an amplified life it is a bigger life a happier life an expanded life and a more interesting life”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“People do not buy what you do; they buy why you do it.”
“Enthusiasm is common endurance is rare”
— Angela Duckworth
“Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.”
— Mortimer Adler
“In order to succeed we must first believe that we can”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
“The soul that has no established aim loses itself; for, as they say, to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
“What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other through compassion”
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished”
— Nietzsche
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing learning is not enough we must apply being willing is not enough we must do”
“I am quite comfortable alone with my thoughts and my purpose”
“I am not afraid. I was born to do this.”
— Joan of Arc
“Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart”
“The present is theirs the future for which I really worked is mine”
— Nikola Tesla
“Nature made us for the open air and the sunlight.”
— Giacomo Leopardi
“Be impeccable with your word”
— Don Miguel Ruiz
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go”
— T.S. Eliot
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.”
“Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“Life is not about finding yourself life is about creating yourself”
“Who looks outside dreams who looks inside awakes”
— Old Play (epigraph used by William Butler Yeats)
“The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present.”
— Sogyal Rinpoche
“The mountains are calling and I must go”
— John Muir
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars”
“The noblest question in the world is: What good may I do in it?”
“A 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 humankind”
— Daisaku Ikeda
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life”
“An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable.”
— Neville Goddard
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
“The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose”
“The right direction with steady pace beats speed without purpose.”
— DuckyHeals
“He who knows others is wise he who knows himself is enlightened”
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is maybe you should set up a life you do not need to escape from”
“The purpose of man is in action, not thought.”
“If 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 chaos”
— E.O. Wilson
“What you seek is seeking you.”
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control”
— Martha Nussbaum
“How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives”
— Annie Dillard
“The best moments usually occur when a persons body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort”
“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day”
— Liz Gilbert
“You cannot lead the people if you do not love the people you cannot save the people if you do not serve the people”
— Cornel West
“Your time is limited, dont waste it living someone elses life.”
“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”
— Kevin Kruse
“To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all”
— Oscar Wilde
“The meaning of life is to find your gift the purpose of life is to give it away”
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom”
— Vincent van Gogh
“What a man can be he must be this need we call self-actualization”
— Abraham Maslow
“The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.”
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived it is what difference we have made to the lives of others”
“You were born with wings why prefer to crawl through life”
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy and faith gives us the courage to pursue that happiness”
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”
“The 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 themselves”
“My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and to do so with some passion some compassion some humor and some style”
“The soul is healed by being with children”
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