Worth Quoting
Finding Meaning in Life
A five-minute search on the internet will give you hundreds of quotations about the meaning of life. Here are ten I recently came across that I liked enough to share with you.
1. “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” (Robert Byrne)
2. “To give life a meaning one must have a purpose larger than one’s self, and more enduring than one’s life.” (Will Durant)
3. “The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.” (George Eliot)
4. “The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into luster.” (D.H. Lawrence)
5. “More than anything else, what keeps a person going in the midst of adversity is having a sense of purpose.” (John C. Maxwell)
6. “The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost.” (Michel de Montaigne)
7. “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
8. “There is nothing quite as potent as a focused life, one lived on purpose.” (Rick Warren)
9. “Integrity and firmness of purpose are all I can promise. These, be the voyage long or short, shall never forsake me.” (George Washington)
10. “Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.” (James Allen)