Steven Curtis Chapman Quotes

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

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

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

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.

Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life.

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.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

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.

Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life.

I had always wanted to belong, and I had been thinking that this was going to get solved when I had money, and instead, I had no idea how I wanted to live my life. And no one teaches you what to do after you achieve financial independence. So I had to confront that.

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

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

I had money, but I still didn't know what to do with my life.

Everybody has a purpose.

You can't want an amazing life and then resent it when it happens to you. Destiny has very little to do with what you think and what you want to do and even what you might like.

I believe you must enjoy every phase of your life.

Everyone wants you to define your life until the end of your life.

I went through a phase after we won the World Cup of 'what am I going to do with my life.'

The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning . Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.