Top 100 Quotes About Our Purpose In Life
#1. I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.
Laurence Fishburne
#2. Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.
Dalai Lama
#3. We all serve the illusion from time to time, but when we are able to see through it, we become open to reality. Then and only then can we understand and know our true selves and our purpose in life.
Gary Markwick
#5. We may know our true purpose in life, because we may choose our purpose in life.
Bryant McGill
#6. Large part of our purpose in life is to be of service to the rest of us.
Angelina Love
#7. We can't fully encompass our motivational and inspirational awareness without fully understanding our purpose in life.
Matthew Donnelly
#8. Struggles not only make us into stronger, better and wiser people, they also let us learn more about ourselves and our purpose in life.
Auliq Ice
#9. We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, sins, doubts, and deepest despair, replay poignant memories of loved ones, project what we are becoming, and ascertain the purpose of our being.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#10. We should be selfless in our practice as believers
Sunday Adelaja
#11. We dedicate most of the time worrying about our deficiencies and self-criticism instead of concentrating on our goals and believing in our destination
Sunday Adelaja
#12. We see baptism as the starting point in our journey of discipleship. Our daily walk with Jesus Christ leads to peace and purpose in this life and profound joy and eternal salvation in the world to come.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#13. In order to understand our life mission and answer the question "Where am I going?" we need to grow and shape our personality
Sunday Adelaja
#14. We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to live as if this thing we call life is filled with nothing but nothing.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#15. There is a day coming when all of the suffering, all of the maladies of this life are destroyed, when we, in our glorified bodies, will live in heaven, on the new earth, eternally fulfilling God's ordained purpose for us.
Paul P. Enns
#16. Our prime purpose in life is to serve others.
Dalai Lama
#17. If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.
Boyd K. Packer
#18. To get rid of complexes and consequently, to finding a more conscious and harmonious life is to see and understand where these distortions occurs in our lives
Sunday Adelaja
#19. Whatever change you desire for the world, create that change in your own life. You are here for a purpose. Seek it out. Hunt it down. The greatest misery is to be purposeless. The great depression of our age is not economic, but spiritual. Our spiritual poverty is rooted in our purposelessness.
Matthew Kelly
#20. Man's Chief purpose ... is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life.
Lewis Mumford
#21. We kill, kill, kill. Flesh, spirit, whatever gets in our way. It's like our whole purpose is to extinguish life. And for those who live, there's memory, like a curse. We're such a mixture of frailty and cruelty.
Douglas Clegg
#22. In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.
Veronica Roth
#23. I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness. I don't believe that anymore. I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him. He knows how He wants us to use them.
Francine Rivers
#24. There is need for a new foundation and this foundation is laid in us on the day of our salvation
Sunday Adelaja
#25. It can make us stronger, more compassionate, more understanding - more like Jesus - if we allow it to. And the more clutter we get rid of in our life here - the more we will be able to enjoy heaven - when we get there. So, pain can have a purpose.
Janette Oke
#26. In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That is what she thought, though what is most untrustworthy about our natures and self-worth is how we differe in our own realities from the way we are seen by others.
Michael Ondaatje
#27. Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.
George Bernard Shaw
#28. We're each given one life, and it's our job to make it useful, beautiful, and fulfilling. There is no value in suffering through it, doing something we hate. There's no prize at the end for that kind of endurance. Just a spent life.
Sarah Jio
#29. Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
Alfred North Whitehead
#30. Year-end financial statements ... express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.
Alain De Botton
#31. until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall courageously pay a higher price for our ignorance always
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#32. Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be readily understood except on the basis of faith and hope because there is often a larger purpose which we do not always understand. Peace comes through hope.
James E. Faust
#33. The Bible teaches that we have a Christian duty to help our neighbors in their time of need. We are called by God to bring the water of life for both soul and body. God created them both, and His purpose is to redeem them both.
Billy Graham
#34. The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament.
Rowan Williams
#35. Comparing ourselves instead of taking lessons from ourselves is not only a catalyst to diminishing our true purpose but also a great ingredient to thinking negative and staying in mediocrity
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#36. When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#37. The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.
Charles Stanley
#38. When we are conscious of our personal uniqueness and our universal nature we express ourselves creatively. In this way we fulfill our dreams and our life purpose.
Andrew Schneider
#39. The difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make.
Slade Combs
#40. Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.
John The Apostle
#41. The unfairness of judging others comes in that we judge them on the basis of our own values and beliefs, yet we can never exactly stand on common ground.
Archibald Marwizi
#42. The depth of our belief in the Resurrection and the Atonement of the Savior will, I believe, determine the measure of courage and purpose with which we meet life's challenges.
James E. Faust
#43. True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives - that is, our time and choices - to God's purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.
D. Todd Christofferson
#44. Nothing that occurs in life is random or without purpose. Lessons were found within each event in our lives that, positive or negative, ultimately instilled a peaceful mind in us.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#45. We are responsible for our actions. But we must battle for sufficient time in our own lives to bring value to our existence.
Fennel Hudson
#46. I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in that religion or this religion, we are all seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness ...
Dalai Lama XIV
#47. Our legacy is not found in all the 'stuff' we've accumulated on our life's journey. It's written in the memories of those whose lives we've touched along the way.
Justin Young
#48. We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.
Natalia Vodianova
#49. Life has a time limit. And we are changing all the time. So are our ambitions, desires, and purposes . . . The important thing is to find something that never changes in you.
Fumio Obata
#50. Our goal in life is to bring the Kingdom of God to people and help change their lives
Sunday Adelaja
#51. It may be argued again that dissatisfaction with our life's endeavor springs in some degree from dulness. We require higher tasks, because we do not recognise the height of those we have.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#52. We came here to co-create with God by extending love. Life spent with any other purpose in mind is meaningless, contrary to our nature, and ultimately painful.
Marianne Williamson
#53. Nelson Mandela was one of the most influential people in my life. He was my hero, my friend, and also a companion to me in our fight for the people and for world peace. Let us all continue his legacy with purpose and passion.
Pele
#54. If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed, eternal dance that we would be wise to bow down before in gratitude and humility.
Leslie Morgan Steiner
#55. We are all not called to be entrepreneurs but we can all be enterprising in our chosen fields
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#56. Life is supposed to be used in fulfilling our individual purposes of creation
Sunday Adelaja
#57. There are times in life that you don't have to waste time at all, and there are times in life where delay saves time, purpose and life. In all things we do we must not forget this one thing: our lives have been timed!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#58. In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn that this is our duty. It must go down into our hearts so deeply that neither the many demands on our efforts in the bloom of life nor the trials that come with age can turn us from that purpose.
Henry B. Eyring
#59. We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.
Eric Hoffer
#60. Our history, especially that of the great religions, Christianity in particular, has given us a "hidden prejudice" in favor of the "beyond" at the expense of the "here and now" and this must be changed.
(quoted from The Age of Atheists" by Peter Watson, p 25)
Luc Ferry
#61. Coming into a realization that there is purpose in why God has given all of us the gift of life- To promote the cause of Christ and God's Kingdom in a creative manner that expresses our uniqueness.
R. Alan Woods
#62. in this bedroom, away from reality, was our world, and it was filled with love and soft kisses and tender moments that brought to the forefront the purpose of our life: each other.
R.J. Lewis
#63. We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.
Blaise Pascal
#64. The chief end of our life is to live in communion with God. To this end the Son of God became incarnate, in order to return us to this divine communion, which was lost by the fall into sin. Through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, we enter into communion with the Father and thus attain our purpose.
Theophan The Recluse
#65. There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor.
Arianna Huffington
#67. Every path we take in life, we make the decision to pursue a dream. We travel the path of our dreams on a mental path of a narrow bridge; we must stay focused on our goal and not fear, lest we lose our balance of purpose and fall.
Ellen J. Barrier
#69. Our days are numbered in the book of days, Most High," Gorgon murmurs as the garden comes once more into view. "That is what gives them sweetness and purpose.
Libba Bray
#70. We all have our own deserts. They may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them to find a purpose in life and be free.
Yeonmi Park
#71. Jiu Jitsu is a baptism by combat, and serves a purpose in the inner life of the individual that has always existed, but our modern culture fails to acknowledge.
Chris Matakas
#72. The alternative to pain may be worse. When you live with an open heart, you will inevitably get hurt. The alternative of living a life closed off from experience, however, is barren. Ironically, it also still involves suffering. In fearing pain, we already feel the pain from our fear.
Ann Brasco
#73. Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious and tormented satisfaction. But the worst temptations are those we give in to without getting anything in return except for the brutal discovery of our weakness.
Paolo Maurensig
#74. We worship numberless gods or idols, but we all need to be the grandest possible versions of ourselves, we need to walk across the face of the earth with as much grace and beauty as we can muster before we're wrapped in our winding sheets, and returned.
Michael Cunningham
#76. A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or understood independently of him who is the origin and purpose of our existence.
Henri Nouwen
#77. The process of time brings our transformation to fruition. Free yourself to live through the processes God puts you through because at the appointed time He will cause you to bear much fruit - all for purpose of glorifying Him in the world.
LaShawnda Jones
#79. But we also believe that part of our mission in life is to find our bliss and follow it. Life is a precious and delicate gift. How much of that gift do we squander out of fear?
Dianne Sylvan
#80. Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.
Marianne Williamson
#81. The prime purpose of our life is to love and appreciate all the beauty in and around us and feel the joy of love.
Debasish Mridha
#82. we must learn to see life as meaningful despite our circumstances. It emphasizes that there is an ultimate purpose to life. And in its original version, before an appendix was added, it concluded with one of the most religious sentences written in the twentieth Century:
Viktor E. Frankl
#83. We were created fearless in order to achieve our goals more effectively
Sunday Adelaja
#84. We're more than just the history of our soul. More than our DNA. More than our past lives. We're the choices we've made in this life. Every one of them, giving us purpose.
Megan Miranda
#85. Everything in life belongs to God. Our purpose has already been mapped out.
David Luiz
#86. If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.
John Cowper Powys
#87. As years and experiences add up and life begins to wear us down, it's easy for the vibrancy of our passion and purpose to fade ... Never let your best days be behind you. In my mind, they're always ahead.
Shawn Anderson
#88. We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life "hidden with Christ in God" in our everyday human conditions.
Oswald Chambers
#89. Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein we each shape our own destiny, find fulfillment in daily activities, and come to understand our ultimate purpose in life.
Josei Toda
#90. Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us.
Frederick Lenz
#92. Our main mandate in our place of work is to make sure that the people open up their hearts to others
Sunday Adelaja
#93. Finding happiness is not as simple as having good friends or a full social life. The crunch issue is our ability, or inability, to find within ourselves a sense of meaning or deeper purpose, something not found in everyday life.
Mark Vernon
#94. Destiny always has definite plans for everyone and they get reveled at the right time. There is a divine purpose in everyone's life but as human beings, we tend to deviate from His plans, getting over confident in our own abilities....
From A Tulip in the Desert.
Shrruti Patole Clarence
#96. Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
Robert Breault
#97. Complexes and negative beliefs remain in our sub consciousness for a life time
Sunday Adelaja
#98. Happiness does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are not in our peddling little happiness, but in something reasonable and grand. Do good!
Anton Chekhov
#99. In our life there is one side which is finite and another side which is infinite. I want you to think about both the sides and design the best life and stand in their true values.
Amit Ray
#100. If you don't know what you value in life, then you won't be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.
Shannon L. Alder
