Quotes about Purpose

"Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you're supposed to be."

Happiness is not a goal. It's a by-product.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Your 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 work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

Most people die at age 25 and are buried at age 65.

The ability to be good is not the ability to do nothing. It is not negative or passive. It is the ability to do something well--to do good work for good reasons. In order to be good you have to know how--and this knowing is vast, complex, humble and humbling; it is of the mind and of the hands, of neither alone.

But, my dear boy, you don't eat or drink the law, or sit in the shade of it or warm yourself by it, or wear it, or have your being in it. The law exists only to serve.

Maybe the world is waiting for you to give yourself to it. Maybe it's only then that things can work themselves out.