Julia Ward Howe Quotes

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

My own experience is that everybody is born with a certain talent, and unless he lives that talent to its fullest, something in him will remain missing. He will go on feeling that somehow something is not there that should be.

You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

The purpose of life is to create your Self anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about Who You Are. It is to announce and become, express and fulfill, experience and know your true Self.

I know who I am and what I'm doing in my life and what I've accomplished and continue to accomplish as a performer, as a writer, as an artist, as a person, as a human being.

I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

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.

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

My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn't change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change - we can be miserable or we can be happy. It's what you make of your life.

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

There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.

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.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.

Every person can reach a full life.

The purpose of life is to explore one's own life to its fullest, to explore all dimensions.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Your life is important. Whether you achieve what you want in life matters. Whether you are happy matters. Honor and fight for your highest potential. Self-realizatio n-the realization of the best within you-is the noblest goal of your existence.