Purposeful Living Quotes

“Dare to find your own truth, despite what others say, then have the courage to live it.”
― Laurence Overmire, The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action

“Everyone is driven by the need to fill their life with meaning. Sometimes this need is articulated clearly and then a purpose emerges and that leads to a sense of direction and a sense of mission. Most times it is not. So the void is filled with action. People have kids, gets mortgages, raise families, pay bills, go to work each day without asking why and then, some day, they die. Some times all this is enough. Many times it's not. Action fills the void nicely. Makes each day feel tiring. But without a sense of purpose. Without a sense of vision, it leads to a pattern of behavior that doesn't lead anywhere. Most times we die before we realize this of course.”
― David Amerland

“We'll all live to eternity so why be in a hurry.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

“Our true nature is divine and eternal. Our true purpose of life is to awaken and realize that permanent divinity that is within us.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“You're on the verge of your breakthrough. Your next level is near and your dreams are about to take flight. Believe it. You need to fight off the fear and prepare for the weight of favor, abundance and responsibility coming your way. ”
― Germany Kent

“Diversity is one of humanity’s greatest strengths – so be yourself. Find out what makes you look and feel beautiful in your own eyes. Vigorous womanhood can look any way you want it to and can encompass whatever elevates your life and allows you to live your unique spiritual purpose.”
― Elizabeth Eiler

“Life is a crapshoot. It is also brief. No generation is invulnerable to the formidable and grave powers of creation and obliteration that time renders. All people are subject to the vagrancies of time’s steady pulse and subordinated to brute chance engendered when pulling the levers of fate found in our risk-filled environment. We can tilt the odds in our favor of living happily to a ripe old age by displaying a high degree of awareness and exercising self-control. We must rightfully display pride in our lives by claiming responsibility for ourselves and by taking on every challenge without mental equivocation. I seek to conquer personal fears and employ honest effort, energy, endurance, and enthusiasm supplemented with booster shots of intellectual integrity to become my personal master. Self-mastery, self-discipline, conscientious study, uncompromising integrity, and ethical awareness form the foundation stones of all religions and these qualities anchor every person of high character. While no personal medicine wheel is without faults and frailties, a person who exhibits an annealed temperament constantly searches inward to improve him or herself while maintaining a vigilant eye upon fulfilling their caregiver responsibilities.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Our life journey tests our physical and moral stamina. We undergo many trials before we discover the right way to live and delve the proper purpose of life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Living an engaged and contemplative existence allows a person to glean the quintessential experience of living mindfully.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Pretending is useless when you know the deep truth behind your pretensions.”
― Krizha Mae G. Abia

“Learning how to be aware of and connected to yourself helps you identify and move toward your ideals in both work and life. This makes you a healthier individual and aligns you with your purpose—however you’ve defined that for yourself.”
― Melissa Steginus, Self Care at Work: How to Reduce Stress, Boost Productivity, and Do More of What Matters

“The false sense of adventure wrought from walking a gangplank of amorous tropism embroiders a shallow life. Only religious mystics or persons exhibiting tremendous internal resources dedicate their lives to seeking a meaningful existence that transcends the festive indulgence of taking a pleasure cruise through life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Despite the trappings of living a gilded life, a final reckoning awaits each of us, a fateful conclusion that no conscientious human can put off admitting to until their final heartbeat. Until that compressed moment of elucidation arrives, many people including me mesmerize ourselves by raking in guilt-lined pleasures as fast as we can. Lost in the erratic shuffle of daily forging is the modest precept that it is how we live that defines us.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster

“Living purposefully calls for us to display a dynamic constitution. Immersion in all facets of life allows us to experience the full sweep of living purposefully. Every civilization will flounder and fail, but out of these ruins, a few good people will emerge to lead us into new chapters of civilization.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We are finite creates in a world of boundless space, endless time, and infinite matter. At any given moment, we are each a composition of our past memories, our present day exigencies, and our future expectations. Each passing day we modify our identity, filtering a continuum of past memories with our present day hopes and desires. The design of our future prospects shapes not only our present life, but also the furious pursuit of our dreams provides contexture for the lives of other people who will follow our loose-limbed march through time’s corridor. We search for an understanding of how to live in an age that will soon no longer exist. I am a bubble in space-time, an organic organism that will soon burst apart. I need to know why I lived. Acclaimed Russian author Leo Tolstoy wrote in 1877 novel “Anna Karenina,” “Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to reap; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather your stones together. That verse is so universally relatable. It’s the whole human journey wrapped up into one gigantic run-on sentence. I feel like I’ve lived it all in the last week, except for the last part. That’s why I’m going home. It’s time to gather my stones together.”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“A confused person does not know how to commence living a purposeful life. An ignorant person cannot discern their weakness or comprehend how to make the most of their innate ability. A fearful person spends their life worrying instead of working to gain knowledge and accomplish valuable tasks.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We must live life in the present as shaped by the past. The option to begin afresh does not exist. The past days and nights were the sacrificial coals that fired an internal furnace. The dying embers fueled my present being. I need to locate new nutrients to revitalize an unfulfilled soul. I seek to unearth fresh energy sources and forge a renewed resoluteness to slog through the remainder of this gaseous and hard-pressed sojourn. Any prior personal inspiration for living righteously was lost on a remote outpost somewhere along the fractured trail. I go on because I must. I trust that if I industrially seek, I shall ascertain a purpose in life that currently eludes me. If I tread long enough, if I assiduously track sufficient true miles, I shall discover a purpose that fits me. I continue to push forward with an unbowed determination, navigate into the deep unknown with the confidence of an experienced admiral who knows that if he endures the gale forces of self-doubt and persist despite all setbacks that he will discover what he seeks. A person must rely upon personal consciousness as a guiding compass into penetrating the unalleviated obscurity that shrouds the way. I shall always resist the easy path, because it leads to an apocalyptic demise.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A noble soul predicates its living charter upon leading a principled existence. Without personal integrity, a person leads a feckless and meaningless life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“All worldly experiences provide opportunities for personal growth. We must each follow our passion to discover personal happiness. I am compelled to obey the law of my own being, no matter what the consequences, even if it leads to disaster or death. High-minded people might take a different trail. Well-meaning people might envision a different path for us. Our life is not a group project; we must give birth to our own vision. We must look inside ourselves to discern what our humanity demands of us, and then give expression to our sacred seed of inwardness. A person lives part of his or her life sampling its rich offering, discovering what resonates with oneself. Experimentation leads to growth, growth leads to knowledge, which in turn leads to wisdom.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“People who fling themselves at life live more.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“People who are not happy with their jobs simply bought into society's social contract, but deep down they carry an untold story inside them. It could be in music, sports, writing, business, art, fashion, technology or any type of creative outlet. They long to tell this story and show themselves to the world but are trapped by big mortgage and kids' school fees. But there is a soul passion and purpose deep within longing for an outlet but sadly some have chosen to live behind the cubicle, the prison of their own creation.”
― Nicky Verd

“Personal branding begins the moment you begin to discover yourself.”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“Soul work [is] [...] seeking to realize (make "real") Who You Truly Are.

You can create Who You Are over and over again. Indeed, you do - every day. As things now stand, you do not always come up with the same answer, however. Given an identical outer experience, on day one you may choose to be patient, loving and kind in relationship to it. On day two you may choose to be angry, ugly and sad.

The Master is one who always comes up with the same answer - and that answer is always the highest choice.

In this the Master is imminently predictable. Conversely, the student is completely unpredictable. One can tell how one is doing on the road to mastery by simply noticing how predictably one makes the highest choice in responding or reacting to any situation.”
― Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1

“Most of us suffer from the pangs of self-doubt; yet, the courage to tread forward must originate from within. I seek to articulate a definitive purpose behind my effort and then resolve to devote all interpersonal resources to achieve established goals. I need to be mindful of personal talents and imperfections, boldly face all fears, bravely straddle the unknown, and unerringly establish high-minded objectives. I must exhibit determination, resilience, and courage to give my best effort and never slacken a resolute pace. A seeker is obligated to be truthful; I cannot engage in self-deception if I hope to develop the integrity of my spirit. Comparable to all worthwhile tests of character, a person seeking growth must ultimately conquer his or her insecurities and discover a means to muster flagging personal fortitude. Can I throttle back from the black lagoon or did I travel too far as a chainless soul up the river of insanity to turn back now? Can I reintegrate myself in a normative world where self-preservation and reasonableness reigns? Can I conduct a Black Ops reconnaissance operation by reconfiguring the organs of a dismembered self with reawakened astuteness, and exhibit the determined stoicism indicative of my ancestor lineage?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“In order to discover life-affirming answers, a seeker must ask the correct questions. Can I frame the penetrating questions that will open a diffident person’s mind to investigate how to live out the remainder of his life?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Running the gauntlet of the trials and tribulations of life, we accumulate an array of useful habits and self-defeating behavior. A personal routine that customary characteristics garner positive traits must be cultivated with care. We must ruthlessly discard the bad habits of yesterday along with any notion that one will appease a restless soul’s willful temperament with acceptance of any degree of personal slovenliness. Injecting new challenges into our lives can assist us recognize when we have allowed apathy and stale habits to dampen our spirit and dull our minds. Rejection of all forms of personal inadequacy and casting aside familiar tapestries opens our eyes to rediscover the unsullied sensation of living vigorously.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“If you have a purpose, action flows on its own, but if you don't have a purpose, then no matter how much you try to keep busy, at the end of the day, you end up achieving nothing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law

“Under the microscope, the little becomes larger.
To enlarge your life, treasure the little things of life.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

“Surround yourself with people who will push you into your purpose. Understand that everybody can't go where you are going and that the wrong people will limit your potential.”
― Germany Kent