William Stafford Quotes

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.

I don't understand what I do, I just know that it's great.

I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.

The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do

How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.

Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Football was not what I was put on this planet to do.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

I always say your truth is your compass to your purpose.

People should ask themselves why is it that they want to act.

Everyone at a point in their life is struggling to find out who they are and where they belong.

Before you can come to know your purpose, you must come to know yourself.

If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.

If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

What are your goals? Where are you going? Why are you here? What are you? Scientology has answers to these questions, good answers that are true, answers that work for you. For the subject matter of Scientology is you.

One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.

It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period