Quotes About Purpose

Nothing is worthwhile on this unhappy earth except the fulfilment of a man's desire.

The object of a religion or a philosophy is not to make men wealthy or powerful, but to make them, in the last issue, happy: that is, to fulfil their being.

From my earliest days I had a conviction that I was here to write certain things and so from the age of 13, I kept working at that. I was always very busy with my "project" so I'm afraid that I didn't notice much. Much of life has escaped me.

There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est," he said — Life is more than merely staying alive.

Loving you -- if I love you -- is only a beginning...But if I ever hold you in my arms, to do so will be a part of something a great deal bigger than ourselves; no more than an incident in a great plan.

God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?

If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.

I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.

Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.

The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rottin', either write things width reading or do things worth writing.

Why Don't you aim more to the right?

Click here' is not a call to action, because I will only take action with a reason, and clicking is no reason. Remove the 'Click here' from any link, and it will be clearer and more direct. (The only time I ever use 'Click here' is when it is not at all obvious that the target is clickable, which should never really happen.)

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.

Men die when they are finished living...

What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better of life in!—in scattering compliments, tendering visits, gathering and venting news, following feasts and plays, making a little winter love in a dark corner.

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

He felt there had to be 'something'. He felt human beings must create, each in their own way, and that it was only by the application of vision, only by making things, that we could transform the negative 'nothing'.

Don't fear. You will always have something to struggle for, even if it is beauty or joy.

Like my father, I grew distracted and unhappy when I could not usefully occupy my time.

From that point forward, my mission was to ensure a smooth transition.

Making politically unpopular decisions for the long-run benefit of the country is the reason the Fed exists as a politically independent central bank. It was created for precisely this purpose: to do what must be done—what others cannot or will not do.

Lasting happiness can only be achieved through cultivation of soul and mind. And cultivating our souls and minds requires us to live with moral purpose.