“I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.”— Nathan Hale, amazon.com
“If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claim to perform that service are imperious.”— Nathan Hale, amazon.com
“It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.”— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com
“Your purpose is the reason you live and breathe. Your purpose guides your heart, hands, and head.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our innermost being and reality; so tha…”— Joseph Campbell, facebook.com
“I don't think anybody should have regrets, especially me, ... You don't regret what you do in your life. If you do it, you do it for a reason. I'm here, and I'm happy to be here, and I'm happy to be working.”— Sean Taylor, great-quotes.com
“One’s purpose is often hidden. Often we do not have the slightest idea what we are – until we become it.”— Kevin Tobia, aeon.co
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”— Alan W Watts, amazon.com
“No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.”— George Washinton Carver, goodreads.com
“Your purpose gave birth to you. It has molded and shaped who you are and what you do. Your purpose is the reason you live and breathe. Your purpose guides your heart, hands, and head. It is there, within, that you must seek to know it and live it.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Temple, who was driving, suddenly faltered and wept. “I’ve read that libraries are where immortality lies. . . . I don’t want my thoughts to die with me. . . . I want to have done something. . . . I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a posi…”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“I have this thought every second of my life - Why me? Not negatively, like 'Why did this terrible thing happen to me'? But more like 'Why did God choose me and what does He have in mind for me?'”— Bethany Hamilton, surfertoday.com
“If Predestination proceedeth from God’s purpose and will as the apostle affirmeth that it doth, then the purpose and will of God being eternal, can not be moved by our works or faith being temporal.”— John Knox, amazon.com
“Loving you is not a choice, It's who I am. Loving you is not a choice And not much reason to rejoice, But it gives me purpose Gives me voice to say to the world: This is why I live You are why I live. Loving you is why I do The things I do Loving you is not in my control. But loving you, I have a go…”— Stephen Sondheim, en.wikipedia.org
“Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com
“The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.”— Neale Donald Walsch, goodreads.com
“It didn’t matter who liked whom, or on what side a man might find himself, because they were all on the side of a world of very definite finite resources, and they would all suffer terrifying consequences if they drained to bare bones the world that had conceived the life of the human race, fostered…”— Alan Shepard, amazon.com