"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."

Mitch Albom

"The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion."

Terry Orlick

"If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose."

T.D. Jakes

"There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive."

Oprah Winfrey

"That thing that you do, after your day job, in your free time, too early in the morning, too late at night. That thing you read about, write about, think about, in fact fantasize about. That thing you do when you’re all alone and there’s no one to impress, nothing to prove, no money to be made, simply a passion to pursue. That’s it. That’s your thing. That’s your heart, your guide. That’s the thing you must, must do."

Jes Allen

"We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up."

Randy Pausch

"It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy."

Mary Flannery O'Connor

"Many have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. "

Helen Keller

"The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned."

Michael J. Fox

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

Robert Byrne

"When you know who you are; when your mission is clear and you burn with the inner fire of unbreakable will; no cold can touch your heart; no deluge can dampen your purpose. You know that you are alive."

Chief Seattle