Pursuit of Purpose Quotes

I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.

Seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.

He asked if i wouldn't like to live completely without problems, say in greece maybe, nice climate, everything provided? i say: "when we find out what we are actually doing and who we actually are, that is the point of living...it may be only a few seconds...a few seconds of significant actions, out of a lifetime.