The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
I wish[] that you [] find happiness: […] love, laughter, friendship, purpose. And a dance.
David Boreanaz, Bones
We don’t have a lot of time on this earth! We weren’t meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.
Ron Livingston, Office Space
If you are looking for something to complain about, you are absolutely certain to find it. It requires some effort to achieve a happy outlook on life, and most people don’t make it. Most people take the path of least resistance. Far too many people today don’t make the steps to make their life more fulfilling one.
Gregg Easterbrook
They’re all about where people come from. The only thing important is where somebody’s going.
Johnny Depp, Public Enemies
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw
What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other’s cooking & say it was good.
Brian Andreas
The most dangerous creation in the world, in any society, is the man with nothing to lose.
Al Freeman Jr.,  Malcolm X
Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.
Chuck Palahniuk
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
Langston Hughes
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.
Rumi