Stefan Zweig Quotes

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

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

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.

Everybody has a purpose.

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.

Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.

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

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

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.

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

The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success

In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning.

Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them.

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.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

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

I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.