Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Our only purpose in life is growth.

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.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

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

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.

Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the time to get serious and get going.

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.

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

The good thing is that life is sometimes a work in progress.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.

With all the highs and lows I've had in my life, I wouldn't change anything. So no, I don't, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.

No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.

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