Quotes About Purpose

Where there's no dogs, there's no meaningful life.

people come into each other's lives for a reason. If it's not clear in the beginning, all you have to do is keep on living.

I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.

Mevcudat içinde en k?ymettar, hayatt?r. Ve vazifeler içinde en k?ymettar; hayata hizmettir. Ve hidemat-? hayatiye içinde en k?ymettar?; hayat-? fâniyenin hayat-? bâkiyeye ink?lab etmesi için sa'y etmektir. ?u hayat?n bütün k?ymeti ve ehemmiyeti ise; hayat-? bâkiyeye çekirder ve mebde ve men?e olmas? cihetindedir.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm--it can creep, but it cannot fly.

A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit--man.

Like the emery and sand with which we scour off rude surfaces, evil and trouble in this world are but instruments. And they are in the hands of God.

Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

Riches are not an end of life but an instrument of life.

Every thought and feeling is a painting stroke, in the darkness, of our likeness that is to be; and our whole life is but a chamber, which we are frescoing with colors that do not appear while being laid on wet, but which will shine forth afterwards, when finished and dry.

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.

Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

Men think religion bears the same relation to life that flowers do to trees. The tree must grow through a long period before the blossoming time; so they think religion is to be a blossom just before death, to secure heaven. But the Bible represents religion, not as the latest fruit of life, but as the whole of it--beginning, middle, and end. It is simply right living.

life L-- literally I -- in F -- foremost E -- end .....

something somehow it's happen for a reason -------- solution .....

A marriage, she thought, had to have a reason for being.

there was only this one life to live; the unpardonable sin was to waste it.

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is- it must be something you cannot possibly do." Henry Moore

I ask Andrew if he would mind offering some advice to younger people about how to live. He thinks they should ask themselves, What are my values? How do I want to live my life? What do I care about? And then, Does my living situation feed that or does it take away from that? Oh

When she thinks back to the long wasted years that she has devoted to her marriage, Frances wonders whether she was in possession of all her faculties. She was letting her life slip by and doing nothing with it. They didn't even have children.