PURPOSE QUOTES

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

– Søren Kierkegaard

The historic period in which we live is a period of reawakening to a commitment to higher values, a reawakening of individual purpose, and a reawakening of the longing to fulfill that purpose in life.

– Robert Fritz

Your first obligation is to carry out the mission you are meant for, not what your father, mother, mate, or friends say you should do. Your mission will manifest in you when you decide to listen to your heart's desire.

– Naomi Stephan

My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better... to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to existence a meaning and direction -- the most important characteristic of high well-being.

– Gail Sheehy

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

– Leo Buscaglia

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is Real.

– Marge Piercy

If on your journey you find only one thing, let it be your aim in life.

– Unknown

My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don't get them together nobody else will.

– Jimi Hendrix

God has given each of us the ability to do certain things well. Do [them] gladly.

– Romans 12:6

[You have] come into the world for a particular task, and that is [your] purpose.

– Rumi

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

– William James

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

– Mother Teresa

When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.

– Shakti Gawain

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

– Henry David Thoreau

It is better to engage in [your] own occupation, even though [you] may perform it imperfectly, than to accept another's occupation and perform it perfectly.

– Bhagavad-Gita