Quotes About Purpose

Time utilization should focused on life

There are certain people who do not feel like they were raised by wolves, and they are the ones who make the world tick. They are the ones who keep everything functioning so the rest of us can worry about what sort of person we should be.

So your values, happiness and the things the people around you need. Those are the things by which you should steer your life.

There is a kind of sadness in not wanting the things that give so many other people their life's meaning.

In their quest for a life without failure, suffering, or doubt, that is what they achieve: a life empty of all those things that make a human life meaningful.

Maybe I have to think about myself less as a woman with this woman's special task, and more as an individual with her own special task—not put woman before my individuality.

Ask only whether you are living your values, not whether the boxes are ticked.

But two years into our parties, I surveyed the scene from the corner and wondered, 'Why are we having these parties?' What were we making, coming together like that? We were trying to prove that we had everything because we had parties, but I began to feel like we had nothing but parties. If anyone from the future could look back on what we were building, I was sure they would say, 'That could only have been built by slaves

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.

You're chosen by the One who will never unchoose you. You're loved when the crowd cheers and when the lights go out and they all go home.

Compromise is sacrifice when it costs you your peace of mind. Friendship is idolatry when it costs you your self-worth. Love is lust when it costs you your purpose.

To work, Sissy. To. Work. Not to start shit. Not to race. Not to gamble. And definitely not to get arrested or turn all of Japan against you. Remember, I'm not stationed right around the corner like before.

Ronnie offered, "I don't want my life to pass me by." Filling Ronnie's glass again, Sissy promised, "It won't." "It's already started. It's whizzing by like a freight train.

We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?

I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.

I write when I have something to say and not when I don't. My time is better spent if I know I have nothing to say. I don't consider it writer's block; I just don't have anything to say.

Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.

The key to success is to love what you do or to do what you love, no matter if you're doing it big time or in a small way.

Let us leave hurry to slaves.

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?

I think the damned souls in hell must spend half their time wondering what it was that they really meant to do.

I think for me the job always has to be the right thing at the right time.

We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices.