Jimmy Cliff Quotes

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

I love my life, because I’ve seen my purpose.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future.

I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life.

If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.

I know where I was before, and I know where I want to go.

I invite you to consider anew what you know and what you have; what you are here for and where you are going; and how you are going to do what you have come here to do. p 13

Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life.

You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

Everyone is looking for a purpose in life. The reason we all go to the cinema, or online, is because we haven't found a purpose yet. We are always wondering why we're here. But I've learned that we have to create that purpose for ourselves. My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose.

Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.

Find something in your life worth fighting for

The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, 'The Intoxication of Life,' 'The Purpose of Life,' 'The Real Cause of Man's Distress,' 'The Journey to the Goal in Life,' and, one of my favorites, 'The Heart of Man.' They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.