Quotes About Purpose

Look at anybody you admire — from Mother Teresa to Nelson Mandela — and you'll find that their life was filled with great pain. You'll also see that they met the deep challenge of that pain with love. In so doing, they found the call that defined their lives.

When we heed the truth about our greatness in him — when we first hear his whispering voice — the Gift of Restlessness stirs in our souls. We sense God calling us to something more, and it resonates inside of us. The Gift of Restlessness is just a manifestation of our deepest purpose. When we start to step into that greatness and walk in our calling, we find what we sought. Or maybe it finds us. In other words, obedience defeats restlessness.

Ephesians 2:10, Paul says that God has stored up good works for us to do. If we are to do those good works, we must learn to pay attention to what we see and hear the Father doing; we must learn how to depend on him. We need to plug into another power source if we are to come close to doing what Jesus did.

The Curse of Restlessness that can lead from one trip to the next, one job to the next, or one relationship to the next, can be transformed by a sense of contentment. An abiding peace can grow — a peace that comes from living your calling in the world.

All kingdom journeys have an end, as do all journeys in life. Ultimately, we will have to ask ourselves if we are satisfied with how we've lived. Did we invest our life the way we or God wanted? Did we live well?

If we never get out of our comfort zones we can't grow into the places God has prepared for us.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.

Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.

Without death, life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told.A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish? - Henry, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them?

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see. To be the playthings of tyrants. But you...you were born to fight tyranny.

Without death life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that could never be sung. For how would one finish it?

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see. To be the playthings of tyrants.

Without death, life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

Don't you think the Gods put some thought into where they put the prostate gland?

At the core of her senseless actions, she vaguely perceived that she yearned for something. A something that would provide her with a sure sense of fulfillment. But she could not fathom what that something might be.

it makes no difference where you came from, if you know where you want to go.

Mindfulness ?2. Choices ?3. Intention ?4. Focus ?5. Repetition ?6. Emotion ?7. Belief