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π― Purpose
βWithout work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.β
β Albert Camus
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
βTo 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 hourβ
β William Blake
βIf you dont design your own life plan chances are you will fall into someone elses planβ
β Jim Rohn
βAnd when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve itβ
β Paulo Coelho
βTo be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own controlβ
β Martha Nussbaum
βThe most fundamental aggression to ourselves is remaining ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestlyβ
β Pema Chodron
βPurpose provides activation energy for livingβ
β Daniel Pink
βThe purpose of our lives is to be happyβ
β Dalai Lama
βThe soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.β
β Michel de Montaigne
βSmile breathe and go slowlyβ
β Thich Nhat Hanh
βIt is not what happens to you but how you react to it that mattersβ
β Epictetus
βThe fullness of joy is to behold God in everythingβ
β Julian of Norwich
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
β Howard Thurman
βThe noblest question in the world is: What good may I do in it?β
β Benjamin Franklin
βIn all things of nature there is something of the marvelous, and each has its purpose.β
β Aristotle
βBetween stimulus and response there is a space and in that space is our freedom and power to chooseβ
β Viktor Frankl
βBe kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battleβ
β Plato
βEducation is not preparation for life education is life itselfβ
β John Dewey
βA ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.β
β John A. Shedd
βYou must remain focused on your journey to greatnessβ
β Les Brown
βToo many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fearsβ
βThe good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledgeβ
β Bertrand Russell
βSet a goal so big that if you achieved it it would blow your mindβ
β Bob Proctor
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
βNot all of us can do great things but we can do small things with great loveβ
β Mother Teresa
βYour need for acceptance can make you invisible in this worldβ
β Jim Carrey
βEnthusiasm is common endurance is rareβ
β Angela Duckworth
βThe proper function of man is to live not to existβ
β Jack London
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
βLife isnt about finding yourself life is about creating yourselfβ
β George Bernard Shaw
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
βHold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken winged bird that cannot flyβ
β Langston Hughes
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
βWe can do hard thingsβ
β Glennon Doyle
βYou need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every dayβ
β Liz Gilbert
βA useless life is an early death.β
β Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
βThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreamsβ
β Eleanor Roosevelt
βA journey of a thousand miles begins with a single stepβ
β Lao Tzu
βLife is never made unbearable by circumstances but only by lack of meaning and purposeβ
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
β Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
βAll journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unawareβ
β Martin Buber
βHow we spend our days is of course how we spend our livesβ
β Annie Dillard
βBecoming is better than beingβ
β Carol Dweck
βThe bow too tensely strung is easily broken.β
β Publilius Syrus
βDo not die with your music still in youβ
β Wayne Dyer
βYour vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart who looks outside dreams who looks inside awakensβ
β Carl Jung
βThe privilege of a lifetime is being who you areβ
β Joseph Campbell
βWith everything that has happened to you you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a giftβ
βTo forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.β
β Friedrich Nietzsche
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
βAct well your part; there all the honour lies.β
β Alexander Pope
βOur goal should be to live life in radical amazementβ
β Abraham Heschel
βWithin you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourselfβ
β Hermann Hesse
βThe 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 Godβ
β Meister Eckhart
βThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughtsβ
β Marcus Aurelius
βSkills are cheap passion is pricelessβ
β Gary Vaynerchuk
βThe only journey is the one withinβ
β Rainer Maria Rilke
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
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
β Nelson Mandela
βThe soul is healed by being with childrenβ
β Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
βYou are one decision away from a totally different lifeβ
β Mel Robbins
βTell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious lifeβ
β Mary Oliver
βShoot for the moon even if you miss you will land among the starsβ
β Norman Vincent Peale
βWhere your talents and the needs of the world cross there lies your vocationβ
βMake your work to be in keeping with your purpose.β
β Leonardo da Vinci
βThe meaning of life is to find your gift the purpose of life is to share itβ
β Naval Ravikant
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
βFollow your passion is bad advice deep work on rare and valuable skills is what creates a remarkable careerβ
β Cal Newport
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
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
βWhen I let go of what I am I become what I might beβ
βPain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heartβ
βEvery action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to becomeβ
β James Clear
βLife is either a daring adventure or nothing at allβ
β Helen Keller
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
βArrange whatever pieces come your wayβ
β Virginia Woolf
βLife will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousnessβ
β Eckhart Tolle
βIf a man has not discovered something that he will die for he is not fit to liveβ
β Martin Luther King Jr.
βAll of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room aloneβ
β Blaise Pascal
βThe meaning of life is just to be alive it is so plain and so obvious and so simpleβ
β Alan Watts
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
βHe who has a why to live for can bear almost any howβ
βLife is not about finding yourself life is about creating yourselfβ
βLife shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courageβ
β Anais Nin
βThe most deeply motivated people hitch their desires to a cause larger than themselvesβ
βWorking hard for something we do not care about is called stress working hard for something we love is called passionβ
β Simon Sinek
βThe place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the worlds deep hunger meetβ
β Frederick Buechner
βPurpose is not a destination to find it is a direction to travelβ
β Liz Forkin Bohannon
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
βAnd 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 inβ
β Haruki Murakami
βWhat a man can be he must be this need we call self-actualizationβ
β Abraham Maslow
βAnd ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separationβ
β Khalil Gibran
βAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover themβ
β Galileo Galilei
βThe question is not who is going to let me but who is going to stop meβ
β Ayn Rand
βNo one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of anotherβ
β Charles Dickens
βThe purpose of life is a life of purpose.β
β Robert Byrne
βI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of lifeβ
β Henry David Thoreau
βWork is love made visibleβ
β Kahlil Gibran
βWhen you are inspired by some great purpose, all your thoughts break their bonds.β
β Patanjali
βOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate but that we are powerful beyond measureβ
β Marianne Williamson
βEverything is figureoutableβ
β Marie Forleo
βThe power plant does not have energy it generates energyβ
β Brendon Burchard
βThe only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to beβ
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
βIn the end these things matter most how well did you love how fully did you live how deeply did you let goβ
β Jack Kornfield
βWe know what we are but know not what we may beβ
β William Shakespeare
βThe meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.β
βGod has no body now on earth but yours no hands but yours no feet but yoursβ
β Teresa of Avila
βThe sole meaning of life is to serve humanityβ
β Leo Tolstoy
βIn order to succeed we must first believe that we canβ
β Nikos Kazantzakis
βThe most important thing is to find out what is the most important thingβ
β Shunryu Suzuki
βSetting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visibleβ
β Tony Robbins
βThe meaning of life is to find your gift the purpose of life is to give it awayβ
β Pablo Picasso
βThe purpose of man is in action, not thought.β
β Thomas Carlyle
βOne is not born but rather becomes a womanβ
β Simone de Beauvoir
βThe purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help othersβ
β Albert Schweitzer
βIf 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 chaosβ
β E.O. Wilson
βThe purpose of life is to live a life of purposeβ
β Robin Sharma
βNothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose β a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.β
β Mary Shelley
βYou 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 holdingβ
β Cheryl Strayed
βThose who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lastsβ
β Rachel Carson
βLife can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwardsβ
β Soren Kierkegaard
βThe main skill in life is figuring out what you want and pursuing itβ
βEverything in the universe has a purpose. There is nothing that is useless or without reason.β
β Aztec Proverb
βI have been impressed with the urgency of doing learning is not enough we must apply being willing is not enough we must doβ
βKnowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdomβ
βThe purpose of life is a life of purposeβ
βThe purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answersβ
β James Baldwin
βDaring 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 conversationsβ
β Brene Brown
βGreat minds have purposes, others have wishes.β
β Washington Irving
βTwo roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the differenceβ
β Robert Frost
βAct as if what you do makes a difference. It does.β
β William James
βWhen you know your purpose you understand why certain things matter and others do notβ
β Jay Shetty
βI would rather die of passion than of boredomβ
β Vincent van Gogh
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
βWe are all just walking each other homeβ
β Ram Dass
βWe are made for goodness we are made for love we are made for friendliness we are made for togethernessβ
β Desmond Tutu
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
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
βIn all things that you do, consider the end.β
β Solon
βWe delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beautyβ
β Maya Angelou
βI will live this day as if it is my lastβ
β Og Mandino
βIt does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stopβ
β Confucius
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
βI have not failed I have just found 10000 ways that wont workβ
β Thomas Edison
βEfforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.β
βSow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.β
β Charles Reade
βStrive not to be a success but rather to be of valueβ
β Albert Einstein
βAnd suddenly you know its time to start something new and trust the magic of beginningsβ
βThe two greatest days in a persons life are the day they were born and the day they discover whyβ
β John Maxwell
βI exist as I am that is enoughβ
β Walt Whitman
βThe sign of a full life is that it has both a purpose that lifts it and a spontaneity that keeps it freshβ
β Sri Aurobindo
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
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
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
βIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick societyβ
β Jiddu Krishnamurti
βI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberatelyβ
βI slept and dreamt that life was joy I awoke and saw that life was service I acted and behold service was joyβ
β Rabindranath Tagore
βIn the end it is not the years in your life that count it is the life in your yearsβ
β Abraham Lincoln
βLearn silence with the learned speak with the ignorant in silence we growβ
β Pythagoras
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
βIf you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.β
βNot life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.β
β Socrates
βOwning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we will ever doβ
βNature does not hurry yet everything is accomplishedβ
βHe who has a why to live can bear almost any how.β
βIn the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summerβ
βThose who have a why to live can bear with almost any howβ
βEvery 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 futureβ
β Deepak Chopra
βMake each day your masterpieceβ
β John Wooden
βThe ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its childrenβ
β Dietrich Bonhoeffer
βMy mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and to do so with some passion some compassion some humor and some styleβ
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
βThe present is theirs the future for which I really worked is mineβ
β Nikola Tesla
βYou give but little when you give of your possessions it is when you give of yourself that you truly giveβ
βA man without purpose is like a ship without a rudder.β
βThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyesβ
β Marcel Proust
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 wellβ
βChoose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your lifeβ
βIn the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.β
βOnly those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can goβ
β T.S. Eliot
βMake it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.β
β Miguel de Cervantes
βTry not to become a person of success but rather try to become a person of valueβ
βArise awake and stop not until the goal is reachedβ
β Swami Vivekananda
βThe two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out whyβ
β Mark Twain
βBe impeccable with your wordβ
β Don Miguel Ruiz
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
βYou cannot find peace by avoiding lifeβ
βBe realistic plan for a miracleβ
β Osho
βPursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.β
βDo unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto youβ
β Wendell Berry
βWe only find purpose in dialogue with others our identity is formed through recognitionβ
β Charles Taylor
βLet yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love it will not lead you astrayβ
β Rumi
βOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scarsβ
βThe best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of othersβ
β Mahatma Gandhi
βWheresoever you go, go with all your heart.β
βThe mountains are calling and I must goβ
β John Muir
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
βThe earth is what we all have in commonβ
βFirst say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to doβ
βThe unexamined life is not worth livingβ
βIn 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 groundβ
β Wangari Maathai
βA man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.β
βAct as if what you do makes a difference it doesβ
βThe high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.β
βThe good life is a process not a state of beingβ
β Carl Rogers
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
βNo one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.β
βThe person who lives in vain, lives for himself alone.β
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
βLet each man think himself an act of God, his mind a thought, his life a breath of God.β
β Philip James Bailey
βWho looks outside dreams who looks inside awakesβ
βThe winners in life think constantly in terms of I can I will and I amβ
β Denis Waitley
βYour purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to itβ
β Buddha
βI 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 ourselvesβ
βWhat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within usβ
βEveryone has a purpose in life a unique gift or special talent to give to othersβ
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
βWaste no more time arguing about what a good man should be just be oneβ
βIt is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of itβ
β Seneca
βMan is condemned to be free because once thrown into the world he is responsible for everything he doesβ
β Jean-Paul Sartre
βThe miracle that saves the world the realm of human affairs from its normal natural ruin is ultimately the fact of natalityβ
β Hannah Arendt
βArise awake and stop not till the goal is reachedβ
βWhat you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to makeβ
β Jane Goodall
βThe path to paradise begins in hellβ
β Dante Alighieri
βIt is never too late to be what you might have beenβ
β George Eliot
βThe Spirit shall look out through matters gaze and matter shall reveal the spirits faceβ
βDwell in possibilityβ
β Emily Dickinson
βThe best way to predict the future is to create itβ
β Peter Drucker
βLet each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.β
β Sextus Propertius
βFollow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only wallsβ
βHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the worldβ
β Anne Frank
βYou are today where your thoughts have brought you and you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take youβ
β James Allen
βHe who knows others is wise he who knows himself is enlightenedβ
βTo have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.β
β Stephen MacKenna
βIt is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?β
βLet each man exercise the art he knows.β
β Aristophanes
βAct as if what you do makes a difference because it doesβ
βThe mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.β
βLive each present moment completely and the future will take care of itselfβ
β Paramahansa Yogananda
βIf 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 seaβ
β Antoine de Saint-Exupery
βThe best moments usually occur when a persons body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effortβ
βI am no longer accepting the things I cannot change I am changing the things I cannot acceptβ
β Angela Davis
βPlaying big does not mean having the biggest audience or the most impressive title it means being more loyal to your dreams than your fearsβ
β Tara Mohr
βThe archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.β
βWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experienceβ
βInstead of wondering when your next vacation is maybe you should set up a life you dont need to escape fromβ
βTo live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is allβ
β Oscar Wilde
βYou were born with wings why prefer to crawl through lifeβ
βIt always seems impossible until it is doneβ
βAsk what makes you come alive and go do itβ
βThe mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive but in finding something to live forβ
βThe most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeedβ
β Adam Grant
βThe aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware joyously drunkenly serenely divinely awareβ
β Henry Miller
βWhen a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.β
βEvery person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.β
βBe 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 Godβ
β Hildegard of Bingen
βBe less curious about people and more curious about ideasβ
β Marie Curie
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
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
βThe archer that shoots at random, without any mark to aim at, never hits the target.β
β Saadi Shirazi
βPeople do not buy what you do they buy why you do itβ
βHe who has a why to live can bear almost any howβ
βThe main thing is to keep the main thing the main thingβ
β Stephen Covey
βWhat we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.β
β Albert Pike
βFar and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doingβ
β Theodore Roosevelt
βSomewhere something incredible is waiting to be knownβ
β Carl Sagan
βThere is no success without hardshipβ
β Sophocles
βThe two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.β
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
βLeadership is the capacity to translate vision into realityβ
β Warren Bennis
βThe secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.β
βThe present moment is filled with joy and happiness if you are attentiveβ
βWe make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we giveβ
β Winston Churchill
βKnowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.β
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
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