Living Your Purpose: 21 of The Best Quotes
“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 mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
― Albert Einstein
“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”
― Pearl S. Buck
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
― Robert Bryne
“To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.”
― Johann Gottfried Herder
“We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpose of our lives”
― Brian L. Weiss
“True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.”
― Pliny the Elder
“There is a purpose in life--to raise men nearer to the likeness of God. Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy; and in no other way can true joy be found.”
― John Andreas Widtsoe
“Those who died while trying to make our world a better place, didn't actually die, they proved some points. Our job is to notice them and continue from where they stopped.”
― Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
“There is a greater purpose to living which is found in the spirit, which is the Being, and that purpose is worth living for.”
― Belsebuub
“The fact that you can do something doesn't mean you are called to do it.”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive
“You life matters. You are here for a reason. Your job is to determine why.”
― Michael Hyatt
“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”
- Paulo Coelho
“The two most important days in life are the day you born and the day you discover the reason why.”
– Mark Twain
“Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were mean to do.”
– Satchel Paige
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
– Les Brown
“There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”
– Denis Waitley
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.”
—Helen Keller
“The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.”
—Irene C. Kassorla
“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
—Albert Einstein