Purpose

People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that’s why they give up on it so early, too.

People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that’s why they give up on it so early, too.

I have in irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

I have in irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Abraham Lincoln

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Albert Einstein

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein

Nature does nothing in vain.

Nature does nothing in vain.