Emmanuel Jal Quotes

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

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

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

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

If you don't love where you are right now, you won't love where you are going. Here is what I know: People who are passionate about what they do every day and love where they are in life are the fortunate ones. They have discovered their purpose. They are the difference makers who fully understand the gift of adding value, and yes, they can't help but love where they are going on their journey.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

Our assignment comes with the alignment. Too many people look for the assignment without first finding their alignment.

You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here

If we could solve the problem of who we are and where we are going, that it would have a huge impact on the culture and waterfall in on some of the more practical and social issues.

My friends don't understand, whether it's belonging to a country club or playing golf, or whatever a vacation is, that should make you happy. And it's like, "No, happiness is much deeper." I think people have to struggle to find things that give them purpose, the real meaning. Why am I alive? Why did God bless me with these skills or these resources? What am I to do with them? If God just lets some person be very fortunate, let's say financially, it's kind of a funny God.

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

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

If people do not know where they have been and what they have been they don't know what they are. They don't know where they going to have to go or where they still have to be.

Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

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

Not all those who wander are lost.

I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?