Finding Your Purpose – Quotes to Ponder – Tending the Holy Thursdays

Finding Your Purpose – Quotes to Ponder 

In January on Tending the Holy Thursdays, we have been exploring finding your purpose. I encourage you to reread the first two blog posts about this topic and if you haven’t already and download the Spiritual Autobiography Resource Guide to complete to help you in your search. (See button at end of this post)

Next week I will summarize this topic and add some of my lessons learned and will invite you in the comments to reflect on what you learned.

Today I am going to simply list thoughts/quotes what others have written about finding your purpose. It is my hope these words guide you to clarity, stimulate your imagination of what could be and motivate you to keep searching.

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.”

Rumi

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“Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.”

Brian Tracy 

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“Uncovering purpose helps to refine passion, focus efforts, and sharpen commitments.”

John Maxwell

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“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

Henceforth will I apply all my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.”

Og Mandino 

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“The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind.

Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another – that we find we have a common nature – one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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“The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.”

David Viscott

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“Purpose is the place where your deep gladness meets the world’s needs.”

Frederick Buechner 

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“The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.”

Irene C. Kassorla

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“I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”

Leo C. Rosten 

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“When you see what you’re here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It’s almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you.”

Betty Sue Flowers 

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“We seek purpose when we are not in touch with who we really are. When an apple tree discovers who it is, the question ‘what must I do?’ disappears. When you discover who you are (at the deepest place of your being) you will find your purpose.”

Colleen-Joy Page 

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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life and don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. Most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”

Steve Jobs 

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“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.”

Oprah Winfrey 

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“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”

Malcolm Forbes 

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“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”

William James 

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‘He who has a why can endure any how.”

Frederick Nietzsche

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“Everyone has a purpose in life… a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.”

Deepak Chopra 

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Mark Twain

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“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

Michelangelo

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“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

Harold Whitman 

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“The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.”

Thomas Carlyle

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“Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.”

Richard Bach

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“There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

Nelson Mandela

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“I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”

Leo C. Rosten

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Which quote resonated the most with you?

 
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