Dan Buettner Quotes

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

Everybody has a purpose.

Graduates, your values matter. They are your north star. And work takes on new meaning when you feel you're pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job. And life is too short for that.

I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.

The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.

I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

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

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

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

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.

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.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.