- Happiness is the sense that one matters. Sarah Trimmer
- Life is worth living when you find purpose. Nick Vujicic
- Happiness is living by inner purpose. David W Augsburger
- The secret to happiness is something to do. John Burroughs
- My happiness came from learning my purpose. Karrine Steffans
- The purpose of life afterall is to live it. Eleanor Roosevelt
- If you want to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose. Joel Osteen
- Where there is purpose, there is happiness as well. Swami Abhedananda
- You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution. Robert F. Kennedy
- Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy. Barbara Marx Hubbard
- Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose. John Stossel
- The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. William Cowper
- We can only feel happy and fulfilled if we’re engaged in our soul’s purpose. Doreen Virtue
- The things that bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose. Jack Canfield
- The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die. George Bernard Shaw
- To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything else be more fun? Katharine Graham
- When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world? Oprah Winfrey
- Vocation is the place where the world’s greatest need and a person’s greatest joy meet. Frederick Buechner
- We won’t fully experience joy until we’ve answered life’s biggest question: Why am I here? John C. Maxwell
- It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfilment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. Denis Waitley
- True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller
- Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives. James Altucher
- Never ask, “What reason do I have to be happy?” Instead ask, “To what purpose can I attach my happiness?” Robert Brault
- Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job…You can have a job and still be unfulfilled. Maya Angelou
- The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day. Tony Robbins
- Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. Wilfred T. Grenfell
- Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland. Charles Kingsley
- Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life’s purpose. Robin Sharma
- My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right? Charles M. Schulz
- Find your purpose by excavating and tying together the common threads of your happy memories by focusing on the emotions you felt. Mastin Kipp
- The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. Hugo LaFayette Black
- To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature. George Hodges
- Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility. David W Augsburger
- If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life. Jack H. Goaslind
- A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success. Michael Josephson
- Be someone who lives with joy, with purpose, as your own light brightly shines. Be, in every moment, the special someone you are truly meant to be. Ralph Marston
- Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. William Cowper
- Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them. Thomas Kinkade
- Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work. Bertrand Russell
- Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose and direct all your energies towards it. Robin Sharma
- Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller
- A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness. Nathaniel Branden
- As long you feel complete, loved and happy with a purpose, and you have the appreciation for every little thing that surrounds you, that’s success for me. Omar Chaparro
- Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life. John Stuart Mill
- The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me. Jeff Lindsay
- It is impossible to work with a definite sense of purpose and be depressed at the same time. Carefully planned work will motivate you to do more and worry less. Steve Chandler
- If you really want to be successful and you really want to be happy, don’t have a job, have a purpose. …When you’ve got a purpose, the whole world is your office. Robert Holden
- Balance is to choose happiness, to feel that the purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved, to be happy, to be conscious, to be aware, to be fulfilled. Frederick Lenz
- Freedom and happiness come from understanding – and working with – our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with your purpose. Do not seek external approval. Epictetus
- The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging. Robert Biswas-Diener
- To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food. Frederick E. Crane
- Purpose is that sense that we are part of something bigger than ourselves, that we are needed, that we have something better ahead to work for. Purpose is what creates true happiness. Mark Zuckerberg
- The secret to a happy life is to recognize that no matter what the situation, there’s a creative opportunity in it. Also, finding meaning and purpose in your life to make a contribution. Deepak Chopra
- Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible. Malcolm X
- Not everybody can identify a purpose in life. But when you do, and when you pursue it, you will be living the kind of life you feel you were meant to live. And what’s more, you will be happy. Steve Goodier
- We all have something that we are meant to do. Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose and then direct all your energies towards it. Robin Sharma
- Your long-term happiness and fulfillment depend on your ability to fulfill your soul’s unique purpose and to fill the place in the world that only you can fill, making the contribution that only you can make. Rod Stryker
- When people are deeply happy they bring a sense of purpose with them wherever they go, whatever circumstances they are in. So if they’re changing the oil in the car, they bring a sense of joyful purpose even to that. Marci Shimoff
- Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude. Nick Vujicic
- Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make a difference that we lived at all. Leo Buscaglia
- Finding happiness is not as simple as having good friends or a full social life. The crunch issue is our ability, or inability, to find within ourselves a sense of meaning or deeper purpose, something not found in everyday life. Mark Vernon
- When we align our thoughts, emotions, and actions with the highest part of ourselves, we are filled with enthusiasm, purpose, and meaning . . . . We are joyously and intimately engaged with our world. This is the experience of authentic power. Gary Zukav
- Everyone has a purpose in life… a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals. Deepak Chopra
- To be fully alive means opening yourself up to all dimensions of life—sadness as well as joy, and pain as well as pleasure. It also involves committing yourself to a search for personal meaning and transcendent goals—of which happiness is a by- product. Robert W. Firestone
- What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment, but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and will give unity and direction to our life. We can never know the profoundest joy without conviction that our life is significant–not a meaningless episode. Henry J. Golding
- Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves. David Shi
- Listen to the clues. The next time you feel real joy, stop and think. Pay attention. Because joy is the universe’s way of knocking on your mind’s door. Hello in there. Is anyone home? Can I leave a message? Yes? Good! The message is that you are happy, and that means that you are in touch with your purpose. Steve Chandler
- The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside – love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you’re a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy. Tom Shadyac
- If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the exercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable. David Mitchell
- Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose… Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is… Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work! Thomas Carlyle
- This is the true joy in life–being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. George Bernard Shaw
- This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. George Bernard Shaw
- It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. As a matter of experience, we find that true happiness comes in seeking other things, in the manifold activities of life, in the healthful outgoing of all human powers. Hugh Black
- Finding and creating your life’s work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do – your unique and special vocation. Your life’s work involves doing what you love and loving what you do. Dennis Kimbro
- Living a lie – pretending everything is fine when we are actually discontented – is hard work and, in the long run, even bad for our health. We pay a high price for compromising on this honesty – and neglecting ourselves. Finding our inner passion, our mission in life, and connecting with who we really are, our spiritual being or our higher self – this is the key to success and fulfilment. Our ‘soul’ purpose is our sole purpose in life. Kristiane Backer
- Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic needs; Affection enough to like many and love a few; Self-respect enough to love yourself; Charity enough to give to others in need; Courage enough to face difficulties; Creativity enough to solve problems; Humor enough to laugh at will; Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow; Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have; Health enough to enjoy life for all its worth. Ernie J Zelinski
- This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw
- The research on happiness clearly shows that people who are deeply committed to whatever gives their life meaning are much happier than those who don’t have this greater sense of purpose. According to the psychologist Edward Diener, who researches subjective well-being in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, one of the vital ingredients for happiness is “having a meaning in life. . . . and having goals embedded in your long-term values that you’re working for, but also that you find enjoyable.” Health and longevity studies show that when people live with a sense of purpose, no matter how big or small, they live longer and healthier lives. Marci Shimoff
