Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

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

I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.

Everybody has a purpose.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

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.

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.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

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.

For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

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.

As a child, my mother had instilled in me a feeling of being born for a purpose.

Football was not what I was put on this planet to do.

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.

Everybody has a purpose in this world.

Understanding that what it is that you're doing isn't limited to the roles and the rejection, it's bigger than that, it's about your purpose in life.

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

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.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.