Quotes about Purpose
What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
- Albert Camus
Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.
- Thomas a Kempis
Happiness is the ultimate goal. It is the goal of all other goals.
- Deepak Chopra
The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accom plished something.
- Henry Ford
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
I wish I had never been born, " she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness, " said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...
- CS Lewis
Seekers, what are you seeking? Why aren't you happy just to be alive?
- Marty Rubin
Better to find one thing to live for than a thousand things to be against.
- Marty Rubin
Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.
- Donald Miller
I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams
- Paulo Coelho
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
- George W. Bush