Purposeful Living Quotes

“A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the clouds of million hearts.”
― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion

“Without curiosity and passion, the world will seem to lack possibility and everything in life will appear pre-ordained. It is important for a person to spend the majority of the day pursuing their passionate interests and enlisting their innate inquisitiveness. Life is so much sweeter when we contemplate pleasant as opposed to distasteful thoughts. We feel most alive when we create an apt channel for our creative impulses, and engage in thoughtful discourse relating to our concordant values.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Narcissistic pleasure seekers routinely avoid developing the humility required to manufacture a life of full measure. Shallow persons such as me hide their insecurities behind a false persona of bravado, boasting of their inconsequential deeds, pyrrhic victories, and adamant refusals to tackle any task that they fear.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We each possess the ability creatively to respond to the ontological mystery of our existence.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We become the product of our recurrent thoughts. Writing is one method of explicating upon our thoughts, condensing multiple scenes, times, and ideas, and editing our fragmented beliefs.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“This is the responsibility we all owe to ourselves– that the purpose of our existence be to positively affect others with our gift and this does not begin when we feel we have become “something”. It begins when we decide to pick our gift and align it with it’s purpose.”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.
Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.”
― Phillips Brooks

“Despite the personalization of life’s events, all people largely experience the same general transformative stages of life and eventually we all encounter a row of similar tragedies. We do not experience identical lives or exemplify replicable personalities. Every person is a receptacle whom is capable of experiencing the full gamut of the entire human condition. Our lives act as a period of apprenticeship, which we devote laboring to discover the truths that we can live by.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We must account for the life that we lived. A person inevitably will ask himself or herself on their deathbed, ‘what was the aim of my life,’ ‘what did I accomplish,’ ‘what did I not accomplish,’ ‘what would I alter if I could live my life all over again’? What we discover on our deathbeds is that material luxuries afford no solace. We cannot purchase, possess, or legally acquire what is pure: love, beauty, truth, goodness, and imagination.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Don't try to preserve your energy.
Rather, think of a worthwhile purpose in life and burn yourself up.... for that's what is satisfying and fulfilling.”
― Manoj Arora, Dream On

“Living is a creative and active process of diligent learning that entails industrious human action, attentive awareness, and thoughtful reflection. Learning is one facet of human beings innate capacity that can provide a sense of worthiness to human life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Without thoughtful effort and purposeful change, human life does not improve. The key to living a meaningful life is to accept reality. There is no inherent meaning to life just as there is no hidden meaning behind death. Life is limited and death is simply an ending. The only meaning to life is what each person passionately commits their life to accomplishing.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“There is no pre-mapped intellectual topology path leading to truth. Truth is a process of conducting a searching investigatory dialogue with oneself in an attempt to examine and discern the contents of a person’s own mind. Every person must ask himself or herself what is essential in life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A person must claim the meaning behind his or her existence. How we live is our final testament to what we believed in and our journey through the corridor of time determines our decisive character.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Everyone has a purpose in life - even if yours is to go through it believing you don't have one!”
― Mani S. Sivasubramanian, The Icedrop

“May you find your purpose and passionately live it.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Whatever you do for the purpose of impacting on others, no matter how little you think it to be or how little your audience may seem, it not only grows but it leaves a lifetime effect which sets you up on greater grounds of success more than you ever anticipated.”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“Run your own race of life, with a single minded vision of purpose.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Every choice has a purpose. Every move is deliberate. I am deliberating creating my business and life every day.”
― Sheri Kaye Hoff, Relax Into Inspired Action: Connect the Pieces and Live Fulfilled

“As we grow and progress in life, a lot of things and people need to be left behind. Not for malice but as a necessity!”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“A person’s attitude creates the tone of his or her life. The highest expression of human dignity is to live a purposeful life devoted to principles and exhibiting compassion for other people.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Surround yourself with as many highly qualified people as possible in the various areas of specialty who are passionate not only about business but more importantly about life and who support you in the pursuit of your passion and purpose.”
― Donald Pillai

“Self-mastery involves a studious account of all aspects of human life and developing a comprehensive philosophy for living without fear or anxiety throughout the remaining years of a person’s life. A person must live within the limits of the human condition, which does not justify giving into all of our destructive impulses or living a pleasurable and guiltless life. Self-mastery does not require a person to live a life without passion; rather, it entails channeling vibrant personal passions into living in a virtuous manner of created beings.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We cradle in our nucleus emotional ingots gathered through studied immersion of the incongruities of life. In an elusive quest to disinter meaning out of life, we must cull joy from our daily rituals while conscientiously striving to nourish the nucleus of our buried innate essence. By discovering inner peace blossoming amongst the rubble of daily life, while determinedly searching out the cytoplasm our innate essence, a person’s reveals their inspirational tranquility.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Your sacred right is to decide your own fate.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“The divinity of thy soul is spark of divine-self.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Clear visions and positive goals, leads to positive actions and purposeful life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“May God grant us grace for our daily work.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“One redeeming feature of human beings is that we must work to sustain our survival. Working attaches people to reality; it creates a survival identity, and provides structure to our life. Work provides a person with a temporary purpose and an accompanying sense of security that there is a fitting place in this world for a person of their temperament and talent.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“You see, Adrian, we do many things. We assign meaning to some, and think of others as lacking it. But who's to tell when we're right - and when we're wrong?”
― Mani S. Sivasubramanian, The Icedrop