Will Smith Quotes

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

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

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.

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.

Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that's all it is.

Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.

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

I didn't really feel like I knew who I was until I was 24.

Over the course of your life, you realize more and more who you are and how you want to spend your time. And it became clearer and clearer that I was very unhappy as an actress and didn't feel comfortable in my own skin. When I was younger, I thought it was because I wasn't successful enough.

No matter what you do in life, it's always a struggle, to first of all find who you are.

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

Everyone goes through that time in their life when they're trying to figure out who they are, find their own purpose and their own way.

I think at some point during everyone's life, you finally figure yourself out. I haven't even done that yet. I'm still learning who I am.

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.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.

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.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.

Finding your purpose may be a lifelong pursuit or you may have discovered it when you were 5 years old. There's no absolute timeline for anyone. That's a good reason never to give up, to keep on discovering things every day.