Webster Flanagan Quotes

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

Make your life a mission - not an intermission.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

I've never had a plan for the future.

If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.

I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.

Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.

Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind.

You have a certain number of dreams in your life you want to fulfill.

If you're on Earth as a single-purpose engine, and there's only one thing you want to do for the rest of your life, have at it.

I think life doesn't necessarily have an endgame.

I believe each of us has a mission in life, and that one cannot truly be living their most fulfilled life until they recognize this mission and dedicate their life to pursuing it.

One doesn't necessarily have a mission.

Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.

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.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

Each person has their own calling on this Earth.

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?

I wanted to be a lot of things in my life.

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

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

The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.