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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right.
Charles Monroe Schulz
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Peter Ustinov
Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, dragging an engine at their heels, I'm astonished to perceive how good a purpose the level of excitement is made to serve.
Henry David Thoreau
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Victor Frankl
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
Oscar Wilde
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
Ambrose Bierce
Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life.
Steve Maraboli
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
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
Charles Dickens
Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
Amy Carmichael
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Leo Tolstoy
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
William Cowper
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
Al Sharpman
Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.
Anthony Robbins
A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
Johann von Goethe
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
