Quotes about purpose

The universe will never give you peace in something you weren't meant to settle in.

Not everyone will understand your journey. That's okay. You're here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.

You are here to understand yourself, not to be understood.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

I am not concerned that I have no place; I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

He who should teach men to die would teach them to live well.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.