Category Purpose

Here are some quotes related to Purpose along with their authors:

“There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.” – Oprah Winfrey
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.” – Bishop T.D. Jakes
“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
“If you have a strong purpose in life, you don’t have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The two most important days in life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
“Life without a purpose is like a body without a soul.” – Unknown
“The greatest tragedy is not death but life without purpose.” – Rick Warren
“It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.” – Winston S. Churchill
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” – Robert Byrne
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” – Steve Jobs
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso
“Maybe you’ve been assigned this mountain to show others it can be moved.” – Unknown
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
“To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.” – James Allen
“People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.” – John C. Maxwell
“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
“Every life has a purpose. We need to let go of the past.” – Unknown
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” – Dalai Lama
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso
“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” – John F. Kennedy
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.” – Carl Jung
“True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” – Helen Keller
“Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.” – Kallam Anji Reddy

Category Meaning

Here are some quotes related to Meaning along with their authors:

“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.” – Leo Tolstoy
“The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.” – Joseph Campbell
“The very meaningless of life forces man to create his own meaning.” – Stanley Kubrick
“Our visit to this planet is short, so we should use our time meaningfully, which we can do by helping others wherever possible.” – Dalai Lama
“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
“To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.” – Bill Watterson
“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.” – Hermann Hesse
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” – Thomas Merton
“You can seek the comfortable or the meaningful. Choose wisely.” – Maxime Lagacé
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful.” – James Clear
“What most of us seek is comfort but what gives meaning is connection.” – Maxime Lagacé
“It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute, that gives meaning to our lives.” – Tony Robbins
“The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson
“Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua Marine
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” – Epicurus
“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.” – Anne Frank