A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. —Kurt Vonnegut in The Sirens of Titan More about this quote Tags: love life purpose Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The question is not “Can you make a difference?” You already do make a difference. It’s just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet. —Julia Butterfly Hill More about this quote Tags: life purpose difference choices Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think all people would like to feel that they’re a necessary part of life. That they’re necessary in the world, and that life would be poorer if they weren’t in it. When you accomplish something, when you write good poetry, then I think you feel that the world would be slightly different if you weren’t in it. And that, I think, is part of what being needed is about. —Kenneth Koch More about this quote Tags: life purpose meaning poetry value necessity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life—think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. —Swami Vivekananda More about this quote Tags: life success purpose meaning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don’t think that anything happens by coincidence. No one is here by accident. Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason. —James Redfield in The Celestine Prophecy More about this quote Tags: purpose coincidence accident reason Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don’t do it. Don’t go to that job you hate. Do something you love today. Ride a roller coaster. Swim in the ocean. Go to the airport and get on the next flight to anywhere just for the fun of it. Maybe stop a spinning globe with your finger and then plan a trip to that very spot; even if it’s in the middle of the ocean you can go by boat. Eat some type of ethnic food you’ve never even heard of. Stop a stranger and ask her to explain her greatest fears and her secret hopes and aspirations in detail and then tell her you care because she is a human being. Sit down on the sidewalk and make pictures with colorful chalk. Close your eyes and try to see the world with your nose—allow smells to be your vision. Catch up on your sleep. Call an old friend you haven’t seen in years. Roll up your pant legs and walk into the sea. See a foreign film. Feed squirrels. Do anything! Something! Because you start a revolution one decision at a time, with each breath you take. Just don’t go back to that miserable place you go every day. —Matthew Quick in Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock More about this quote Tags: life power purpose accomplishment vision change work revolution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. —Walker Evans More about this quote Tags: attention learning purpose knowledge death listening urgency Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: life history purpose meaning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward him. —Meister Eckhart More about this quote Tags: God purpose Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You’ve heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well? It’d go like this: You’d get the boss on the line and say, “Listen, I’ve been sick ever since I started working here, but today I’m well and I won’t be in anymore.” Call in well. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: purpose health work mental health illness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. —Charles Dickens More about this quote Tags: life others purpose uselessness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything on earth [is] beautiful, everything, except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity. —Anton Chekhov More about this quote Tags: life beauty purpose thinking earth humanity dignity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. —Rita Mae Brown More about this quote Tags: life purpose enjoyment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Men have become the tools of their tools. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: humanity power purpose tools distraction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. —Edwin Hubbel Chapin More about this quote Tags: action life purpose eternity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email