“A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.”
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Jane Goodall48
British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist 1934Related quotes
“What I do is me: for that I came.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
"As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame" http://www.embodiment-of-freedom.com/persfree/hopkins.html (undated poem, c. March - April 1877) - Analysis and information regarding this poem at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Society http://www.gerardmanleyhopkins.org/lectures_2004/As_Kingfishers_analysis.html
“I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.”
Jack London (1876–1916) American author, journalist, and social activist
Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard (21 August 1903)
Carole King book A Natural Woman
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (1967), Co-written with Gerry Goffin and Jerry Wexler, first recorded by Aretha Franklin
Song lyrics, Singles
Richard McKenna (1913–1964) American writer
Statement made in 1962, as quoted in the Boise Weekly Vol. 7, No. 39 (8 April 1999) http://www.thesandpebbles.com/mckenna/richard_mckenna.html
Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)
As quoted in Writers on Writing (1986) by Jon Winokur.
Variant: If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Jack Kerouac book Lonesome Traveler
Variant: I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
Source: Lonesome Traveler