Top 77 The Purpose Of Our Lives Quotes
#1. Each of us was born to fulfill a divine purpose. As we open our hearts and minds to a new way of being, the purpose of our lives unfolds organically.
Iyanla Vanzant
#2. The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
Thomas Merton
#3. Love must become a practical activity. It should be the meaning and the purpose of our lives
Sunday Adelaja
#5. When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!
Thabo Mbeki
#6. The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.
Marianne Williamson
#7. The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
T. Harv Eker
#8. The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.
Marianne Williamson
#9. The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
Sidney Sheldon
#10. All human beings have control over their own destiny. that is, after all, our purpose on this planet. not to interfere with the lives of others but to shape our own experiences.
Jessica Brody
#11. I believe love is why we're here on the planet and that ultimately it's our purpose for life. They say people who've had near-death experiences often report back that at the end of our lives we have a life review and we're asked one question, and that question is, how much did you love?
Marci Shimoff
#12. In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.
Julia Cameron
#13. We are as the dead," Sha said. "Our purpose is to dedicate our lives to the service of our lord. And, when it is necessary, to surrender those lives. When we become what we are, we lose our lives - our names, our family, our homes, and our honour. All that remains is our lord.
Jim Butcher
#14. I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
Dani Shapiro
#15. The prime purposes of our lives is to help others, love others, and be kind to others.
Debasish Mridha
#16. The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#17. gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering. I wanted to develop research that explained the anatomy of connection. Studying connection
Brene Brown
#18. Without purpose and meaning in our lives, we banish ourselves to wander this plane of existence with self-destructive tendencies until the bell tolls and our breath capsizes in our lungs, snatching our chance to redeem ourselves forever.
A.J. Darkholme
#19. The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other.
Johanna Paungger
#20. The hardest calling in our lives is to be truly ourselves.
J.R. Rim
#21. What if I invited several people to form a study group with the purpose of living out the teachings of James together - a study that wasn't focused on learning facts, but on transforming our lives?
April Love-Fordham
#22. The tides of change have great purpose in our lives.
Bryant McGill
#23. The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word.
Thomas Kinkade
#24. The atheists I know, virtually all of whom are happy and mentally healthy, might more properly be called anti-nihilists. We are mainly optimists who love our lives and find them to be full of meaning and purpose.
Dan Barker
#25. God has plans and purposes for each of our lives. But the beauty is that He doesn't call us and leave us on our own. Jesus actually lives in us to pull off the amazing things that He has invited us into.
Louie Giglio
#26. You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose!
Cupideros
#27. Abiding and obeying gives our lives purpose because it is in the midst of these activities that God works in and through us to do His work.
Wendy Blight
#28. Animals are the bridge between us and the beauty of all that is natural. They show us what's missing in our lives, and how to love ourselves more completely and unconditionally. They connect us back to who we are, and to the purpose of why we're here.
Trisha McCagh
#29. Knowing the purpose for our lives and the time of its fulfilment gives us the opportunity to perform the will of God exactly as he wants.
Sunday Adelaja
#30. Though we may not be able to see His purpose or His plan, the Lord of heaven is on His throne and in firm control of the universe and our lives.
Max Lucado
#31. Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions.
Richard Dawkins
#32. Purpose is the engine, the power that drives and directs our lives.
John R Noe
#33. Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
Richard Holloway
#34. When we learn to attribute meaning to the events in our lives, we connect with our Higher Purpose, Higher Wisdom, or Source; we become Master of the Self. A gradual process, this is often tied to loss and to love.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#35. Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
James Dobson
#36. Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.
Ayn Rand
#37. God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.
John Piper
#38. Purpose should determine approach. At the end of the day, it's what we do, not what we purposed to do, that defines our lives and reputations.
Andy Stanley
#39. Some relationships just don't work out, no matter how bad both parties might want them to. Sometimes time, distance, and circumstances get in the way. And sometimes we have a purpose for our lives that couldn't be fulfilled inside the bounds of that relationship.
Mandy Hale
#40. The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.
Brennan Manning
#41. What do we do with mountains? For us who have lived most of our lives on monotonous level ground, mountains give indelible character to the landscape. They evoke wonder, awe, a multitude of questions as to their purpose, their grandeur and the mystery of creation.
F. Sionil Jose
#42. The needs of others are ever present, and each of us can do something to help someone ... Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives.
Thomas S. Monson
#43. What is the purpose of wealth if it cannot serve an ideal that enhances humanity and betters the lives of the people, even if that means those we have never met before in our lives?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#44. I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.
Oprah Winfrey
#45. My purpose ... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.
Juliette Gordon Low
#46. In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.
Marlo Thomas
#47. Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible.
Malcolm X
#48. I can't even think of the right word, but it's not "help." It's more like a prerequisite. I think connection is why we're here, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and belonging is in our DNA. And so "tribe" and "belonging" are irreducible needs, like love.
Brene Brown
#49. Love and belonging are irreducible needs of all men, women, and children. We're hardwired for connection - it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The absence of love, belonging, and connection always leads to suffering.
Brene Brown
#50. We can't script every detail of our lives. But we can solve the riddle
of fulfillment when we plan ahead while simultaneously embracing
the surprises of each moment.
Gina Greenlee
#51. Employment wastes the productive time of our lives
Sunday Adelaja
#52. God made you for a reason and your life has profound meaning! We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.
Rick Warren
#53. The purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. How much am I doing about my anger, attachment, hatred, pride, and jealousy? These are the things we must check in our daily lives." - HIS HOLINESS, THE DALAI LAMA
Haemin Sunim
#54. God makes each one of us for the time into which we are born. He creates us for a purpose. Our job is to know Him well, discover what He created us to do, and then do it for all we're worth for the rest of our lives. Ask God to show you your purpose. He will answer.
Robin Lee Hatcher
#55. Our ministries exist not simply for the purpose of helping people live well now; our ministries, like our whole lives, must aim for the end, when we'll see Jesus face-to-face. The
Gloria Furman
#56. The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.
Ernst Mach
#57. We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpose of our lives
Brian L. Weiss
#58. An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also in us, in the way we live our lives day by day.
Stephen Covey
#59. Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility - these three forces are the very nerve of education.
Rudolf Steiner
#60. There are also several practical aspects to learning more about
our eternal home. Having a better perspective on the purpose of
our lives helps us to handle difficult times better. It helps us focus
on what is truly important. It also helps us to enjoy this life more
fully.
Vance C. Kessler
#61. Our suffering is often the deep soul groaning for the purposes of God in and through us. Mission cannot be fulfilled without love, and we cannot love without groaning and suffering over the brokenness in others' lives. As a result, we cannot accomplish our mission without suffering.
Gregory Beale
#62. 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
#63. Not knowing about the ultimate purpose of our lives causes tremendous amounts of suffering.
Debasish Mridha
#64. America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.
Christopher Dodd
#65. September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.
Bill Frist
#66. Sometimes I felt like the mundane details of our lives were the only things tethering me to the world. I could hold onto them - distractions necessitating action. They gave me a sense of purpose. If not for the leaky faucet, the sandwiches, the bills, I might not know what to do with my hands.
T. Greenwood
#67. Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.
Mortimer Adler
#68. All our focus and strength must be concentrated on striving to fulfill the will of God for our lives
Sunday Adelaja
#70. Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.
Tony Robbins
#71. We need to increasingly live from the fullness of our whole hearts in order to become who we are meant to be and play the significant role that is ours to play. We want to be awake and alert. We want to be women who live their lives on purpose.
Stasi Eldredge
#72. I believe God intervenes in the lives of every one of us. He speaks to us in different ways and at different times so that we may know he is the author of our very personality.
Ravi Zacharias
#73. A temple is a place in which those whom He has chosen are endowed with power from on high - a power which enables us to use our gifts and capabilities - to bring to pass our Heavenly Father's purposes in our own lives and the lives of those we love.
David B. Haight
#74. A disciple is one who thinks, feels and acts like Jesus Christ. It is being conformed to the image of Christ as Romans 8:28-29 states-that God's No.1 purpose in our lives is to make us like Jesus.
Rick Warren
#75. Our goal in life is to bring the Kingdom of God to people and help change their lives
Sunday Adelaja
#76. I hope my greatest contribution will be to try to extract principles of truth that will cause us to live our lives in a more effective way and to advance Jesus' purpose in the world.
Erwin McManus
#77. 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
