Purpose Of Life Quotes

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

No eternal reward will forgive us now

For wasting the dawn.

Jim morrison

From The Wasp.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didnt get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

Author Unknown

Sometimes attributed to Buddha, but this is disputed.

I believe that the very purpose of life is to seek happiness.

Dalai Lama

The Art of Happiness.

From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax, to be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, and enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth.

Thich Nhat Hanh

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Robert Byrne

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

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

Voltaire

You see the Earth as a bright blue and white Christmas tree ornament in the black sky. It's so small and so fragile - you realize that on that small spot is everything that means everything to you; all of history and art and death and birth and love.

Russell Schweikart, astronaut

To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.

Stephen MacKenna

We all possess the thunder of pure fury and the calm breeze of tranquility. If it wasn't for tomorrow, how much would we get done today? Whatever your purpose... embrace it completely. Get lost in the clouds every now and then so you never lose sight of God's wonder.

Paul Vitale

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.

Washington Irving

I would rather be ashes than dust; I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brillant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot; I would rather be in a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow than in a sleepy and permanent planet; the proper function of man is to live, not to exist; I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them; I shall USE my time.

Jack London

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. 

Alan Coren

The Sanity Inspector.

How to gain, how to keep, and how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive for all they do.

William James

In men whom men condemn as ill,

I find so much of goodness still,

In men whom men pronounce divine,

I find so much of sin and blot,

I do not dare to draw a line

Between the two, where God has not.

Joaquin Miller

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced; live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Cherokee Saying

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Sophocles

You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.

Max Ehrmann

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Joan Borysenko

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

George Elliot

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.

John Ruskin

Life is a promise; fulfill it.

Mother Theresa

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

James Michener

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose

Richard Leider

If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have done my best." That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

Lin Yutang

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

You are what your deep driving desire is; As your deep driving desire is, so is your will; As your will is so is your deed; As your deed is so is your destiny.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad