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If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Values Service Compassion

The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller

Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins

If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra

When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca

The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous

No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne

If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

You have to realize: OK, I don't know how
to solve a political problem,
I don't know how to solve the pollution problem...
all I know is in my own life,
I need to figure out some sense of purpose,
I need to figure out how to be happy...
and I'm willing.
- Jewel

The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin

If by chance some day you're not feeling well
and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done
and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart,
then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
- Red Skelton

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Success demands singleness of purpose.
- Vince Lombardi

If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho

March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso

The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan

Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

One day Alice came to a fork in the road
and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
His responses was a question: "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea.
It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience,
something that never has been and never could
have been experienced by anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France

Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1

One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)

Questioning cultural norms opens new vistas of happiness and purpose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Shrinking away from death
is something unhealthy and abnormal -
which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
- Carl Jung

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord,
for I was not anchored to a house or farm,
but could follow the bent of my genius,
which is a very crooked one, every moment.
- Henry David Thoreau

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The question is not whether we will be extremists,
but what kind of extremists we will be...
The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne

I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau

Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All successful people men and women are big dreamers.
They imagine what their future could be,
ideal in every respect,
and then they work every day toward
their distant vision,
that goal or purpose.
- Brian Tracy

What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I've always had a love for poetry,
and when I got signed to a record label I thought,
"How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry."
- Jewel

Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller

The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain

No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead

Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein

We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice,
forever whispering within our ear,
that thing which causes the eternal quest,
that thing which forever sings and sings.
- Ernest Holmes

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