David McCullough Quotes

The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

I think there's something about having a purpose in life and a sense of belonging that is more important than money for any human being.

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.

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

I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

Trying to separate myself from my instincts of pessimism and cut out and define what it is that I really do love, what I'm here to be, why I'm here, and what I think is worth being alive for and fighting for. And those things change, but I think that that's something I am always chasing.

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.

They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

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?'

People have to know there is more to living than physical things.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

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

We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn't necessarily have to get in the way of kind of spiritual fulfillment.

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

Awards can't be what's important in your life. Because that only affects you in a sense. Life is so much more than that: It's your family and your friends and that sort of thing.

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

Christians might say that you can't live a more meaningful life without Jesus. Well, that's absolutely not true. You can. You can enjoy a sunrise whether you know Jesus or not.

Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.

Every good story is about who we are and our struggle to define ourselves.

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

There is more to life than show business.

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

I'm just interested in carving out a meaningful life.