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Purpose Quotes

"If you're alive, there's a purpose to what you're doing."
Joaquin Phoenix
"Our higher existential needs are what motivate us to spend our brief time on the planet in meaningful ways."
Alain de Botton
"Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming."
Alice Walker
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."
Rabindranath Tagore
"To be mature means to take responsibility for defining meaning in our lives, creating fresh forms of meaning via work, relationships, and feeling the fullness of existence."
Alain de Botton
"With me, poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion"
Edgar Allan Poe
"I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there's purpose and worth to each and every life."
Ronald Reagan
"When you have clarity of values, you don’t have to have consistency in everything else."
Satya Nadella
"The day you stop wanting things is the day you stop living"
Simone de Beauvoir
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship and compassion"
Simone de Beauvoir
"I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do."
Haruki Murakami
"I think you still have to do things even if they don’t have any point."
Haruki Murakami
"There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living"
Henry David Thoreau
"It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about"
Henry David Thoreau
"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing, that is enough for one man's life"
T. S. Eliot
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