The creature has a purpose,
 and his eyes are bright with it.
-John Keats

The purpose of life is to stay alive.
-Michael Crichton

There are so many spokes on the wheel of life.
First, we're here to explore new possibilities.
-Ray Charles

The purpose of life...
is to live it,
to taste experience to the utmost,
to reach out eagerly and without fear
for new and richer experiences.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

The aim of life is to live,
and to live means to be aware,
joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
-Henry Miller

If you ask me what I came into the world to do I will tell you;
I came to live out loud.
-Marcel Proust

The truest object of human life is play.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton

I think of life now as a wonderful play
that I've written for myself,
and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
-Shirley Maclaine

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others
that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.
-Stefan Zweig

You can never discover the purpose of life
by asking someone else -
the only way you'll ever get the right answer
is by asking yourself.
-Terri Guillemets

What do you do the best?
What gives you the greatest sense of fulfillment?
That is where your task lies.
-Pat Rodegast, "Emmanuel"

The purpose of life is to discover your gift.
The meaning of life is giving your gift away.
-David Viscott

Figuring out who you are
is the whole point of the human experience.
-Anna Quindlen

The true purpose of the human being -

not the one which changing fashions dictate

but which immutable reason prescribes -

is the highest and fullest development of his powers as a whole.

-Wilhelm von Humboldt

To realize one's nature perfectly -
that is what each of us is here for.
-Oscar Wilde

Our first, our greatest,
our most relentless purpose is peace.
For without peace, there is nothing.
-Adlai Stevenson

The purpose of life
is to express love in all its manifestations.
-Leo Tolstoy

We are going through life with just one purpose:
to make all the wonderful things
- love, truth, compassion, joy - blossom.
-Ashokananda

Our purpose in life
is to grow in wisdom and in love.
-Rachel Naomi Remen

Everything finds blessing in our presence.
Does there need to be a greater joy or purpose than this?
-Ann Mortifee

Every person has only one purpose:
to find perfection in goodness.
-Leo Tolstoy

You are here to enrich the world.
-Woodrow Wilson

The significance of you will forever remain obscure to you,
but you may assume that you are fulfilling your significance
if you apply yourself to converting all your experience
to highest advantage of others.
You and all men are here for the sake of other men.
-R. Buckminster Fuller

The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
-Albert Schweitzer

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
-Robert Byrne

The true purpose of my life...
is to stand for something worth living for.
-Susan Ward

Life means to have something definite to do -
a mission to fulfill -
and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something,
we make it empty.
Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.
-Jose Ortega y Gasset

Definiteness of purpose
is the starting point of all achievement.
-W. Clement Stone

A central purpose serves to integrate and prioritize
all other concerns in one's life.
-Ayn Rand

Above all, be of single aim,
have a legitimate and useful purpose,
and devote yourself to it.
-James Allen

The eye must not lose sight for a moment
of the purpose.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

To forget one's purpose
is the commonest form of stupidity.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

A life without a purpose

is like a boat without a rudder.

-Nathaniel Branden 

Do not, for one repulse,
forgo the purpose that you have resolved to effect.
-William Shakespeare

To know your purpose is not enough.

You need to think through what actions are needed

to achieve your purposes.

-Nathaniel Branden

The first thing in life is to do with purpose
what one purposes to do.
-Pablo Casals

Every day
we ought to renew our purpose.
-Thomas a Kempis

Each of our acts
makes a statement as to our purpose.
-Leo Buscaglia

The further any purpose
the faster we should work toward it.
-Guissepe Mazzini

When we are in alignment with our purpose,
the whole Universe will roll at our feet.
-Franz Kafka

When you want something so powerfully
that literally nothing can stop you,
then you have found your mission on earth.
-David Wolfe

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction
that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it,
and that nothing can resist a will
which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
-Benjamin Disraeli

The great and glorious masterpiece of man
is how to live with a purpose.
-Michel de Montaigne

Cultivation of mind
should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
-B. R. Ambedkar

The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle light
in the darkness of mere being.
-Carl Jung

The purpose of life is to remember.
-Henry Miller

We are here to awaken
from our illusion of separateness.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

The purpose of life is to become conscious.
-Chandra Mohan Jain, "Osho"

Your mission is very simple.
You are asked to live so as to demonstrate
that you are not an ego.
-A Course in Miracles

Our life purpose
is our own personal path of evolution.
-Tracy Marks

Those who best promote life
do not have life for their purpose.
They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation,
a bringing into our human existence of something eternal,
something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote
from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of time.
-Bertrand Russell

The whole purpose of your life
and the purpose behind every human experience
is the growth and unfoldment of the soul.
-Grace Cooke

Our soul's perfection is our life purpose.
-Leo Tolstoy

Only the consciousness of a purpose
that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men
can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
-Walter Lippmann

The purpose of human life...
is to further the evolution of consciousness in the world,
which is to work for the good of all.
-David Frawley

This is our purpose:
to make as meaningful as possible
this life that has been bestowed upon us;
to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves;
to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
-Oswald Spengler

If purpose then, is inherent in art,
so is it in Nature also.
-Aristotle

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all.
This puts one in accord with nature,
in her manner of operation.
-John Cage

There is no purpose:
there is only a living beyond measure.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

That is your higher purpose -
to be radiant for no other reason than being alive.
-Richard Rudd

There is a purpose above each purpose,
and there is again a purpose under each purpose;
and yet beyond and beneath all purposes
there is no purpose.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

I think we are all here for a huge purpose.
I think we shrink from the immensity of purpose
we are here for.
-Norman Mailer

The purpose of life
is to attain to mastery.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Awakening is the purpose that enfolds all purposes.

-Stephen Batchelor

The final end and purpose of every human being
is the unitive knowledge of God's being.
-Aldous Huxley

The purpose of one's whole life
is to make God a reality.
-Hazrzat Inayat Khan

The purpose of life is to realize our spiritual nature
and to do that one has to go away and practice,
to reap the fruits of the path,
otherwise you have nothing to give anyone else.
-Tenzin Palmo

To know the ultimate Not-Self,
which transcend the other not-selves and the ego,
but which is yet closer than breathing, nearer than hands and feet -
this is the consummation of human life,
the end and ultimate purpose of human existence.
-Aldous Huxley

We are on earth for one purpose only:
to know ourselves as spirit
so as to manifest the light and the power of spirit.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Again and again the sacred texts tell us that our life's purpose
is to understand and develop the power of spirit.
-Carolyn Myss

A perfect self-expression of the spirit
is the object of our terrestrial existence.
-Aurobindo Ghose

The purpose of life

is to be eternal every moment.

-Friedrich Schleiermacher

To embody the transcendent
is why we are here.
-Sogyal Rinpoche