Rob Thomas Quotes

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

We're wired somehow to want to be part of something bigger. And we quest to understand what our role is.

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

Do what brings you joy, and your purpose will unfold.

Not everyone has a purpose.

You do find a lot of your time in the West kind of searching for your place in the world - your voice, your identity, like, who am I? Like, what is my reason for being here, you know? And in that same way who am I to be partnered with, you know?

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.

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

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.

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

I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.

I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.

Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

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

He felt like the invisible boy. When he got to be part of the mystery Men he felt like he had a purpose.

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've always been searching. What am I going to do with all this - searching for that place where I could be me.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.

Most people are looking for something to give their life meaning.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

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