Profound joy of the heart is like
A magnet that indicates the path of life.
- Mother Teresa

The great use of life is to spend it
For something that outlasts it.
- William James

The true meaning of life is to plant trees
Under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Mandela



But each incarnation, you might say, has a potentiality, and the mission of life is to live that potentiality. How do you do it? My answer is, "Follow your bliss." There is something inside you that knows when you are in the center, that knows when you are on the beam or off the beam. And if you get off the beam to earn money, you have lost your life. And if you stay in the center and don't get any money, you still have your bliss.
-Joseph Campbell

My life is my message.
- Gandhi

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment. Therein, he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.
-Victor Frankl

When you are inspired by some great purpose
Some extraordinary project,
All your thoughts break their bounds.
Your mind transcends limitations,
Your consciousness expands in every direction,
And you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world.
- The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer

Vocation is the place
Where your deep gladness
And the world's hunger meet.
-Frederick Buechner