Quotes About Purpose

I suspect Cromwell was right: the man who does not know where he's going goes farthest.

Sollte die Freiheit zu streben, die uns die Götter in allen Umständen des Lebens gelassen haben, sollte diese ein Mensch dem andern verkümmern können?

A secure future seemed mapped out for me. Too secure, too mapped out. If I carried on in medicine, I realized I'd have a pretty good idea exactly what I'd be doing ten, twenty and even thirty years from that moment. It struck me like a halibut from the North Sea that that was not the way my life should go at all. What was the point of working on through the age of sixty-five and taking a chance on a better reincarnation next time?

When people are not empowered to discover their identity and pursue their destiny in Christ, then they are not being discipled but used. They are not sons being fathered, but servants being given a job to do.

He knew now that at the end there was only one thing that counted - to be a saint.

What makes a man, without hope, cling to a few more minutes of existence?

What will we care for the why and the wherefore?

There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic,too,and what he had experienced was vacancy-a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all. He knew

If I eliminate everything, how will I exist?

But of course if you believed in God—and the Devil—the thing wasn't quite so comic. Because the Devil—and God too—had always used comic people, futile people, little suburban natures and the maimed and warped to serve his purposes. When God used them you talked emptily of Nobility and when the devil used them of Wickedness, but the material was only dull shabby human mediocrity in either case.

You've got to choose some line of action and live by it. Otherwise nothing matters at all.

You don't think nature has accidents, do you?

It's my destiny. Sometimes you're confronted with things in your life and you realise that you have to deal with them. You don't have a choice, because that's what you were born for

If there is one thing I have come to know in my long years of study, it is that there is no such thing as luck when it comes to the positioning of the universe's chess pieces. Your coming here was no accident. I was meant to train you. I have seen it.

Why are the Fens flat? So God has a clear view...

Jei gyvenimas jums k? nors si?lo, k? darote? Atmetate? Užsimerkiate, nusisukate? Apsimetate, kad ??jote ne pro tas duris. Tai skirta ne man, kažkam kitam...

Kaip gali b?ti kažkuo, pirma nepabuv?s niekuo?

There are those who fashion history and those who contemplate it; there are those who make things happen and those who ask why.

Jane: Cliff...Oh! The metal's warm, like skin. Look at me, Cliff. Listen. Love means nothing at all. Life means nothing at all. Cliff: What?

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.

Purpose. Your life's mission. Your reason for existing. This law asks us to consider our great aim — the work we have been brought

I begin to rant. I'm special, I have needs, I have a job to do—once I get my act together. I'm going to be important.

You always knew what you wanted to be didn't you? He asked Edward. More or less. Smart moves, a gynecologist. Never false moves. I was different, I had goals but no direction. Like a map without roads, just places to be.