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There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those.
Michael Nolan
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come most alive, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.
Antonio Machado
When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.
Betty Bender
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles (see works by and about Pericles )
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt (see works by and about Eleanor Roosevelt )
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.
Aristotle (see works by and about Aristotle )
To the extent that your work takes into account the needs of the world, it will be menaingful; to the extent that through it you express your unique talents, it will be joyful.
from How to Find the Work You Love, by Laurence G Boldt (see works by Laurance Boldt )
Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.
Frederick Buechner
My mission is far greater. It is to make peace with the purpose assigned to my soul, to fully accept the spiritual side of my being.
from Soul Purpose, by Jackee Holder (see works by Jackee Holder )
Your soul doesn’t care what you do for a living - and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you’re being while you’re doing whatever you’re doing.
from Conversations with God, Book 1, by Neale Donald Walsch (see works by Neale Donald Walsch )
Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive.
from Real Magic, by Wayne W Dyer (see works by Wayne Dyer )
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw (see works by George Bernard Shaw )
To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
Katherine Graham
“God, please use me” is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker’s prayer. Everybody wants a great job. Accept that it’s already been given you. The fact that you’re alive means a function has been assigned to you: open your heart to everyone and everything. That way you’re a vessel of God. Don’t worry about what to say or what to do. He’ll let you know.
from A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson (see works by Marianne Williamson )
When you are living on purpose, giving of yourself in a blissful way, your personality will reflect that bliss. You will manifest the necessary talent and intellect to fulfill your purpose. It will not require a struggle or a detailed worksheet of goals and objectives. Your ability to manifest changes in your own personhood is already intact. You are not going to acquire intelligence, talent, skills and confidence from outside of yourself. These are components that already reside within you. What you want to do is shift to a purposeful state, a state in which you feel inspired and significant. When this is your state of mind, then all you need in the way of personality characteristics will surface.
from Real Magic, by Wayne Dyer (see other works by Wayne Dyer )
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
Each soul's entrance into material consciousness should represent to the entity the awareness that a universal consciousness, God, is aware of the entity's purposes, the entity's aims. And this consciousness represents an opportunity for the entity, in the material experience, to become a channel to glorify that purpose, that cause.
Edgar Cayce Reading 2622-1 (see works by Edgar Cayce )
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller (1880-1968) American author and lecturer (see works by and about Helen Keller )
Somewhere in your life there will be an overriding theme to your quest – some part of your desire that cannot be denied without a terrible cost to the very essence of what you are. Are you going to ignore it, or do you have the courage of your commitment and the confidence to demand that life, humanity, or circumstances give you what you want, with no other excuse, reason or apology other than that you demand it?
from The Trick to Money Is Having Some!, by Stuart Wilde (see works by and about Stuart Wilde )
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) 28th US President (see works by and about Woodrow Wilson )
If you aren't clear on what you want, then your mind will be clouded with shoulds. Thus, you will have more hurdles to surmount to get what you want. Even when you do work that you enjoy or love, you may still have that nagging feeling that you're not doing what you should be doing based on family, culture, community, society, peers and teachers.
When you take the time to clarify what you want, however, you're more likely to clearly ask for it and get it. In the end, the only thing you "should" be doing is whatever gives you the greatest amount of passion!
The Daily Guru
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author and poet (see works by Robert Louis Stevenson )
Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. Constant employment and well-paid labor produce general prosperity, content, and cheerfulness.
Daniel Webster (see works by Daniel Webster )
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) Founder of Success Magazine (see works by Orison Swett Marden and Success Magazine )
When you heed the calling of your heart, you are following your purpose. Having purpose in your life gives you the courage to do the things you are meant to do. When you are purpose driven, you have learned to listen to your intutition and never let no get in your way.
from Change Your Life in 30 Days, Rhonda Britten (see works by Rhonda Britten )
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson (see works by and about Woodrow Wilson )
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw (see works by George Bernard Shaw )
Your prime purpose on earth is to help one another. If you can't help one another at least don't hurt one another.
Dalai Lama (see works by and about the Dalai Lama )
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer, 'I am here to live out loud'.
Emile Zola
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him.
Albert Camus (see works by Albert Camus )
Think you can’t change the world? Too late, you already have. It was changed for the better the minute you were born. There are more people than you can imagine who will never be the same because they came in contact with you, if only for a fleeting moment.
Gail Pursell Elliott, ‘The Dignity and Respect Lady’ (see works by Gail Pursell Elliott )
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa (see works by and about Mother Teresa )
Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men.
Albert Einstein (see works by and about Albert Einstein )
Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of your self.
from Anam Cara, Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World (p83), by John O’Donohue
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de la Fontaine (see works by Jean de la Fontaine )
Don’t ask what the world needs, do what makes you come alive; because what the world needs most are people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman (see works by Howard Thurman )
A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!
Thomas A Kempis
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Morrie Schwartz (see works by and about Morrie Schwartz )
Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.
Thomas Merton
I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.
Oprah Winfrey (see works by and about Oprah Winfrey )
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
Why are we here? What is your purpose? Humans have sought to discover the meaning of life for a long time. What we and our ancestors have overlooked, however, in the course of this endless search, is that there is no answer. The meaning of life is different for every individual. Each person has his or her own purpose and distinct path, unique and separate from anyone else’s. As you travel your life path, you will be presented with numerous lessons that you will need to learn in order to fulfill that purpose.
The lessons you are presented with are specific to you; learning these lessons is the key to discovering and fulfilling the meaning and relevance of your own life. Once you have learned the basic lessons taught to you by your own body, you are ready for a more advanced teacher: the universe.
Andrew Adler
It is better to follow your own life mission however imperfectly than to assume the life mission of another person however successfully.
The Bhagavad Gita (see the Bhagavad Gita )
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