Marianne Faithfull Quotes

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.

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.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

Discovering your purpose doesn't have to be complicated. Look at what you do and why you do it. Is it to support your family? That's your purpose. Is it to make a difference in your customer's life? That's your purpose.

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

Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.

I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any mission or passion. I made the difficult decision to pull back from the noise of my life and reinvent the way I was living and leading.

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

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.

I'm relevant because I fill a void for people who aren't doing what they want to do in life.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

Everybody has a purpose in this world.

Before dance came into my life, I don't really remember having any major goals or dreams of wanting to be anything.

There's the part of me that's the organizer, part of me that's the artist, part of me that's the person who, even with those two things, wants to figure out what my place in the world is. How to engage with it and whether my life has any meaning.

The two most important days in your life are the day your are born and the day you find out why.

They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the world.

People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.

There were a lot of people, I found, who'd rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.