Philippe Petit Quotes

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

Everybody has a purpose.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

I believe each of us has a mission in life, and that one cannot truly be living their most fulfilled life until they recognize this mission and dedicate their life to pursuing it.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

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 think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.

Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

I am not on this planet to get something done - the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose.

You can end up living your life pretty incrementally, and that's boring.

Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.

Everybody has a purpose in this world.

Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.

I'll spend the rest of my life chasing that feeling I had on 'The Grey,' because I think we're all aware that, first and foremost, we were having an adventure, and we were also making this movie at the same time.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.

You weren't born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success... Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Discovering your purpose doesn't have to be complicated. Look at what you do and why you do it. Is it to support your family? That's your purpose. Is it to make a difference in your customer's life? That's your purpose.