“It is not with the goal of getting what’s in my interest. But for letting go of my personal clinging to all worldly desires.”

“What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.”

Vikram Seth book An Equal Music

“There is a deeper joy in emptying ourselves/ A deeper fulfilment in commitment/ A nobler life in letting ourselves go/ a truer self in not clinging on to my self!”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu (1957) Indian philosopher

“As an author, my goal is to spread and make sure that the message gets to you. Just like the person who invented the calendar, could not predict what will happen tomorrow.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

“This is my story, this is my song If you feel it, muthafucka, you can't go wrong to the screw-face niggaz, whatch you on? Get off that, get a goal and focus dawg”

Kid Cudi (1984) American rapper, singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor from Ohio

“I'm a very driven person. I'm always going after my goals. You just get up in the morning and kick yourself in the butt. I'd like to show people that they can have that same drive to go where they want to go. It's up to you and not to anybody else.”

Heidi Klum (1973) German model, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and actress

“If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.”

Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist

“It doesn’t do a great deal to advance the goal of humanity. I would pay $20 million not to spend six months in Russia. And besides this, my interest is how do we enable many other people to go to space, not necessarily me, personally.”

Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur

“Transform the divided individual into the world-personality; let all thyself be the divine. This is thy goal.”

Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet