Octavia E. Butler Quotes

My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose.

There's the part of me that's the organizer, part of me that's the artist, part of me that's the person who, even with those two things, wants to figure out what my place in the world is. How to engage with it and whether my life has any meaning.

Nothing exists without a purpose. Every experience you have in this lifetime was written for you to grow into the light you were meant to become.

The purpose of life is to live it.

Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

Boxing is the embodiment of who I am, but beyond that, this is a journey of the self, and my obsession to get the most from this short life.

We are all good at things - a varied assortment of things - and we all desperately need to find out what those things are for our self-esteem. If there is anything young people need, it is confidence and an identity and a purpose.

I'm just interested in carving out a meaningful life.

Real happiness comes from discovering a sense of importance in one's actions and in one's life.

The two most important days in your life are the day your are born and the day you find out why.

I tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.

You remember our talk about purpose and meaning?" he asked me, the smile disappearing. "Well, I think this might be mine. I think this is what I was meant to do, Georgina.