Life Purpose Quotes

And God created every living creature
that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak.
God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke.
Man blinked. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely.
"Everything must have a purpose?" asked God.
"Certainly," said man.
"Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He
went away. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

As to the causation, of the feeling of meaningless, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying way, that people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning. ~ Viktor E. Frankl

There are mainly four types of living beings: vegetables, parasites, animals and humans. Vegetables go through life without any conscience of what it means to be alive, and all they can do is react to what happens around them and unto them. Parasites take advantage of others beings to survive but cannot survive on their own. In fact, they rather kill their host than to improve themselves independently. Animals are driven by basic instincts, like sex and pleasure for food. Animals can have attachments but that is as far as they go in what concerns love. Now human, they are capable of all that, plus the ability to love on will, to change, help others change, and create any reality they want to experience. However, almost everyone I encounter, is either pretending to be a plant, a parasite or an animal, not a human. Few people know what it means to be human, and that's how the waste their own existence. This said, we wouldn't need to answer questions about life purpose when the purpose is understood in being what one was born to be. ~ Robin Sacredfire

He who fails to know his real and true competitor shall never be able to give a good account of his stewardship in life! Your true and real competitor is your real and true solemn duty to your Maker! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

First accept the reality that we are all prejudiced because we have things and issues we have biases towards or against, based on our beliefs, thoughts and experiences. Accept that it is possible to differ on opinions, beliefs and philosophies without necessarily becoming inhumane or acrimonious towards each other. ~ Archibald Marwizi

Life is a changing sequence of situations.If you do not change something, something will change you. ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

God created you for His higher purpose and for your better good ~ Sunday Adelaja

Uselessness
Let mine not be the saddest fate of all,
To live beyond my greater self; to see
My faculties decaying, as the tree
Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall
Let me hear rather the imperious call,
Which all men dread, in my glad morning time,
And follow death ere I have reached my prime,
Or drunk the strengthening cordial of life's gall.
The lightning's stroke or the fierce tempest blast
Which fells the green tree to the earth to-day
Is kinder than the calm that lets it last,
Unhappy witness of its own decay.
May no man ever look on me and say,
'She lives, but all her usefulness is past. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Your life purpose is not just one thing, nor just what you love to do, nor a role, nor a legacy you leave. Your life purpose is who you are 24/7. ~ Diana Dentinger

Life is how you brew it. Wake up, you have a story to tell. Don't chase vain glory, your story will tell it. You owe it to yourself to write the lines of your story in the ink of purpose! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

The purpose and point of this life is to learn and love – and it may be more specifically to learn to love. ~ Kimberly Giles

Some things will go wrong for each of us, the most important thing is your attitude in that circumstance ~ Sunday Adelaja

We need to know who we are and then stand strong ~ Sunday Adelaja

We have something very valuable, for which we have not yet found an application in this life ~ Sunday Adelaja

Maybe the reason nothing seems to be "fixing you" is because you're not broken. Let today be the day you stop living within the confines of how others define or judge you. You have a unique beauty and purpose; live accordingly. ~ Steve Maraboli

The main weapon of the devil is disillusionment ~ Sunday Adelaja

If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than planning the life God intended you to live. ~ Shannon L. Alder

We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpose of our lives ~ Brian L. Weiss

Very frequently we only dream and do so because we do not know how to go from a dream to fulfilment ~ Sunday Adelaja

It is at the time of spiritual wilderness experience that the devil begins to remind us about the past ~ Sunday Adelaja

When you stop doing what insults your Soul, your Journey accelerates and your Life beings to fill with joy. ~ Sue Fitzmaurice

Man's primary purpose is not to be happy but to continue to live, to continue to travel - happily or unhappily - on the path of life! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd. ~ Julian Barnes

If you truly loved someone and they couldn't be in your life you won't hurt them. You will pray for them. You will hope that they find their happiness and place in this world. You will want them to have the best life because love isn't about possession, fear or desperation. When you have a grasp on eternity you don't need to feel time is running out. Time is all you have. Love isn't a game of musical chairs--grab a partner and sit down. It is a search for the right fit for your soul and life purpose. In a life that never ends you will either find the one that sees you as much as you see them, 0r who knows? Maybe, if there are such things as soulmates, God will introduce you, but keep you far enough apart, until each of you fulfill something more important for your growth or God's plan. Regardless, when you can face eternity alone you will know what true love is and that letting go is not an insult to your soul. You can smile because the person you loved has your blessings of protection with them and God has your best interest also in mind. You will find that person to complete you because God wants you to, as much as you do. ~ Shannon L. Alder

I should be inclined, therefore, as I have hinted before, to consider the world and this life as the mighty process of God, not for the trial, but for the creation and formation of mind, a process necessary to awaken inert, chaotic matter into spirit, to sublimate the dust of the earth into soul, to elicit an ethereal spark from the clod of clay. And in this view of the subject, the various impressions and excitements which man receives through life may be considered as the forming hand of his Creator, acting by general laws, and awakening his sluggish existence, by the animating touches of the Divinity, into a capacity of superior enjoyment. The original sin of man is the torpor and corruption of the chaotic matter in which he may be said to be born. ~ Thomas Robert Malthus

Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter. ~ Archibald Marwizi

Knowing your purpose focuses your life. ~ Rick Warren

It often felt like God had merely let me into a foyer where I could hear others playing my note in another room, with no way to get to the music. And that's really what I wanted to do. I wanted to play my note. I wanted to do the thing that made me feel alive. ~ Susan E. Isaacs

The foundation laid in us before was a foundation of thoughts, traditions, and religion of men ~ Sunday Adelaja

Drive your life with care. Look nowhere else than up to your long cherished destination. You can only get there with focus. Blind your eyes from anything else! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

She: Do you always enjoy your struggle?

Me: Yes I do! There is no other meaningful way of living my life. My struggle to give voice to my thoughts is exhilarating. My struggle to channelize my thoughts to an audience is amazingly fulfilling. To write my feelings in words is greatly liberating. It is like my mind has all these thoughts and ideas that need to be shared with the esteemed audience!

She: What is your purpose of being a writer?

Me: A writer's life is a lonely life. The loneliness gives me time to be with myself. I am most happy when I am with myself. This loneliness is like my true existence. I don't need to search for a meaning in life. I have my struggle. I have a purpose. My reason for existence is my struggle to be a writer. ~ Avijeet Das

You should not doubt that you can accomplish something bigger ~ Sunday Adelaja

Discouragement is your enemy, therefore resist it ~ Sunday Adelaja

To achieve your desired success you have to be effectively selling something and to be significant in impact, you must be teaching somehow. How effectively are you selling and how well are you teaching? ~ Archibald Marwizi

Pursuit of truth, not success, is the ultimate purpose of an illuminated life. ~ Debasish Mridha

You can be a sincere person devoting yourself to your husband child or boss, but your sincerity cannot and will not, fill the gap in your knowledge about your life purpose ~ Sunday Adelaja

Skills and special abilities will only grow if you practice more. You become a star-performer by doing. Let performance and production of desired results become a consistent habit associated with your personal brand. ~ Archibald Marwizi

The writer doesn't write for the reader. He doesn't write for himself, either. He writes to serve ... something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness - those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings. ~ Joy Williams

You need to use you imagined view of the future you dream of, then paint the statement in words, to state that clear dream of your desired future. ~ Archibald Marwizi

The purpose of life is to survive,to grow,to accept and adapt changes that happens...And addition to human is to exercise his free will, to learn from experience,to make the most of his time,to live well and to reap what he sow in this life. ~ Balenti Peco Ramos

Until we find an antidote to our ignorance, our purpose shall always be hindered by ignorance ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The sooner you answer the question, "who am I" the more effective and successful life you will have ~ Sunday Adelaja

The purpose of your life is the purpose you bring to it choice by choice and recognition by recognition. ~ Bryant McGill

Just because you cannot see it now, does not mean it is not there or not possible. See yourself succeeding and own that vision through all your planning and hard work. ~ Archibald Marwizi

The world surrounding us often distracts us from our life purposes ~ Sunday Adelaja

Roll-up those sleeves and work until you see the fruit of your labour. It takes Passion, Resolve and a Productive Work Ethic, meeting with Opportunity, for you to succeed. ~ Archibald Marwizi

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles. ~ Alan Cohen

A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into. ~ John Eldredge

When we look at what has the strongest statistical relationship to overall evaluation of your life, the first one is your career well-being, or the mission, purpose and meaning of what you're doing when you wake up each day. ~ Tom Rath

I have a traditional view of the afterlife ... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life. ~ Doug TenNapel

Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it's not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns. ~ Hilary Mantel

We did not decide to be born hence; we cannot live on our own ~ Sunday Adelaja

You are not your outer appearance, and you are not your body ~ Sunday Adelaja

If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth. ~ Mitsugi Saotome

Do not be afraid of living without family- be afraid of living an empty and meaningless life ~ Sunday Adelaja

Do not to look at what you are seeing, do not look at the visible work ~ Sunday Adelaja

Your voice is yours, how dare you let another speak for you.
Your heart is yours, how dare you give it away, so freely to another you hardly know.
Your soul is yours, how dare you ignore its instinctual truth.
Your mind is yours, don't let the world make it negative.
You are the master of your fate, you are the creator of your destiny, don't hand the keys to anyone, rather open the door and welcome them to taste your paradise within. ~ Nikki Rowe

No one can replace you to do what you are destined to do until you totally fail it and leave an empty gap that God will fill. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Always run to, not from, it gives your life purpose. ~ Eric Hansen

There has never been a greater illusion than fear. Fear exists only whilst you believe
in it - whilst you fear it. So ... stop believing, stop fearing. Set up a shadow inventory,
write down all your fears and set out on your warrior path. Make this your life purpose
and gold will be smelt from your terror. ~ Geoff Thompson

The key to success is to first know thyself. The definition of success by another person must not paralyse you or make you think less of your potential to succeed in your own way. ~ Archibald Marwizi

Identify and replace any limiting deep-rooted beliefs that are like a solid mental prison, including thoughts like, 'I'm not worthy,' 'I can't do this,' 'I'm too old to start,' 'I don't have the qualification or skills to become a better person,' 'I'm always the unlucky one,' 'I have nothing to give/say or contribute ~ Archibald Marwizi

Purpose, joy and inner peace are the only status symbols worth having. ~ Anthon St. Maarten

Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you're successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you're inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs. ~ Shannon L. Alder

You do not reduce or eliminate your concerns by crying, shouting or proving you are the victim of whatever happened in your life. ~ Archibald Marwizi

Mindfulness and compassion can give you the power, illumination, love, and wisdom to draw higher forms, thoughts, feelings, and situations into your life. ~ Amit Ray

If we want to grow, the way to break a pattern of negativity is to face anything negative with love. ~ Molly Friedenfeld

Occupy your thoughts with purpose and you will be so busy pursuing a meaningful future there will be no time for doubt, chaos and disappointment. ~ Carlos Wallace

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues. ~ Terry Pratchett

There's never been a map. Only a compass whose dial always knows where it's pointing. ~ Fennel Hudson

Leave no room for fear and excuses. Be strong in spirit and possess unwavering convictions. Choose to be an optimist and commit to succeed. ~ Archibald Marwizi

The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them to the state of blessedness. ~ Dante Alighieri

Regardless of how old you are, who you were, now you are a peculiar people, specially called ~ Sunday Adelaja

People of vision must not be lazy, they must not be afraid of work, no matter how degrading the work might seem ~ Sunday Adelaja

If you build it well, a satisfaction comes
An honor to say I built that with fidelity,
Purpose, value and integrity ~ Richard L. Ratliff

There is a special joy connected to your faith ~ Sunday Adelaja

You must know the purpose of your life and reach it confidently ~ Sunday Adelaja

After you acquire knowledge and skill, aim to be a practitioner. Time for practice on the job or in life will still test your authenticity. Knowledge is one of the greatest sources of confidence, and you will need that confidence to do your work and demonstrate you know what you have been trained for. ~ Archibald Marwizi

I knew in that moment that I was full of it. I didn't know who I was. I only knew my routine. I knew who I was suppose to be, who I was expected to be. ~ Stacie Hammond

The revelations of God can come to you in a state of wakefulness or in sleep ~ Sunday Adelaja

Think about Isis," Jaz repeated. "And Sadie ... there
is a purpose. You taught us that. We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about. That's why its name, its ren, has endured for millennia. Don't despair. Otherwise Chaos wins. ~ Rick Riordan

I can assure you that the life outside the front door is bright and full of life ~ Sunday Adelaja

People from all walks of life share an innate drive for meaning, direction, and purpose. This drive to understand our life purpose seems as important to our psychological growth as eating is to our biological survival. ~ Dan Millman

You need to understand what there is inside you ~ Sunday Adelaja

Life is short as breathing!
Forget Yesterday, Focus today to enjoy tomorrow!
The purpose of life is to live it, not destroy it. ~ Ebelsain Villegas

God created us to be great in our calling ~ Sunday Adelaja

Serious businesses and lenders will tell you that managing your cash flow is one of the most important aspects in the health of any business. Managing you time flow is key to a healthy and successful life, because, Time is equal to Life. The quality of time expenditure is in direct proportion to the quality of life enjoyed. ~ Archibald Marwizi

Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man ~ Sunday Adelaja

I believe the main purpose of life is to accept with gratitude what you've been blessed with so that you may use those gifts to mold yourself into the best person you can possibly be. Learning to discern things of true value from those of little or no worth is part of the process. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You have an internal brake which you are most likely unaware of ~ Sunday Adelaja

I wasn't born to fetch, or sit, or accept a beating. I'm here to be me, to write, and know my purpose. ~ Fennel Hudson

When a person is discouraged, he loses self-control and patience ~ Sunday Adelaja

You were prepositioned on this planet. But you weren't predestined. A clarification of your life purpose will lead you to set your goals, achieve your dreams and reach your destination. ~ Keerthi Singhe

Impact is never about knowing all the steps ahead, but about taking one intentional step after the other. ~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Always find sense in your actions ~ Sunday Adelaja

It's better to run towards something good, than away from something bad. ~ Fennel Hudson

Its hard to explain what you want from your life. The best way to know is to keep your head up, your soul clean and keep moving with the pace of life. It will reveal all to you, when the time is right and the moon is bright. ~ Guru S Gill

I'll be honest with you, the number one reason for all of my past break ups was too much complacency. I'm not perfect, but I just know I'm not cut out for mediocrity in any shape or form. Moreover, I think this has a lot to do with my life purpose as well. I believe I was not brought into this world to turn complacent women into passionate women, but rather to turn passionate women into goddesses. ~ Lebo Grand

God wants to manifest His power through you ~ Sunday Adelaja

What makes your heart leap? ~ Jonas Salk