Purpose Quotes

"You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world." "The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist. It is by the ideal that we live." "I wonder if life is ever lived well by anybody, if there is any one thing that might be called a success—except survival." "The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die" "All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord" "Success is a consequence and must not be a goal" "Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission." "The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving " "Hide not your talents they for use were made What's a sundial in the shade" "For me, life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer." "What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?" "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference" "Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it." "Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we were getting somewhere" "Live for something rather than die for nothing" "I live for this, it isn't just a hobby" "The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it" "We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause" "The best way to help people change is to help them understand who they are, how they work, and why their work matters" "Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness."