Austin Carlile Quotes

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

Figure out what you really love doing and use your strengths on a daily basis.

It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?'

There are a lot of laughs in this movie, but it's not just about the laughs. It's really about the story, about a guy who finds his soul and realizes what's truly important.

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.

You should wake up in the morning and say, 'What do I want to do today? What's going to make me happy?'

I'm just interested in carving out a meaningful life.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

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.

Style, I think, is panache. Who are you? What did you do today? And what are you worth to me? What do you have to offer the world? How did you spend your time today on this planet? How are you spending your time every second? What are you doing now? Are you alive, or are you somnambulant?

My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.

There's a time in your life where you're not quite sure where you are. You think everything's perfect, but it's not perfect... Then one day you wake up and you can't quite picture yourself in the situation you're in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. And I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.

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

If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.

I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.

It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

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.

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

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?