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