Quotes About Purpose

all the bad things that had happened to him were necessary if the intended outcome was to occur.

To be a leader, you do not need a crown or robes of office. All you need to do is to write your chapter in the story, do deeds that heal some of the pain of this world, and act so that others become a little better for having known you. Live so that, through you, our ancient covenant with God is renewed in the only way that matters: in life. Moses' last testament to us at the very end of his days, when his mind might so easily have turned to death, was: choose life.

as Katharine Hepburn majestically said to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Nature, Mr Allnut, is what we were put on earth to rise above.

When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.

the purpose of Genesis was to refute pagan beliefs involving worship of the sun, other luminaries, or pagan deities. In other words, Genesis is allegedly teaching us not to worship the sun but our true God who made the sun. (As

Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.

I was making for 35 Portland Row.

Like the rest of the team, neither of us had wanted to do anything much, other than eat and sleep and enjoy the pure mechanics of being alive. But now he was here.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

I've been treating my life as this pit stop, just kind of regrouping before I move on. But it's been seven years, and I never moved on. I haven't done anything. I just...stopped.

In The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper, Wayne is talking to Joe about "days that matter". Wayne says, "It's simple really. We were doing what we wanted to do, instead of what we expected ourselves to do.

A dream will never be reality, unless you make it reality

Realizing that the dream had been sent to him for a purpose, Adin worked in secert over many months to create a likeness of the belt he had been shown.Then he traveled around the kingdom to persuade each tribe to allow its talisman to be added to it.

I don't want balance. What I want is the brick! I want to find the one thing in my life that, if I get that right, it doesn't matter what the world throws onto the other side of the scale.

Unless you know what you want, you can't ask for it.

You've run a lot of risks, and gone to a lot of work, and all to turn me into a bullet for your gun. But I'm a bullet that thinks for itself, and I want to know what I'm being shot at.

When we can't dream any longer we die.

There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

When we can't dream any longer we die.

Isn't it better to die while you're alive than to live the life of a dead person?

A sinistra c'è l'Ombra ma c'è anche la gioia pura, e forse non può esserci gioia pura senza Ombra, e allora vale la pena di vivere con l'Ombra.

you are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world,

Essa dà, secondo me, un senso concreto, vicino, familiare, all'al di là:

Si è perduto il senso del verbo donarsi