Quotes About Purpose

A soul needs a purpose to live and so I concluded that my purpose was to kill everyone besides myself. I felt alive. --Gaara

So that's it? Your just going to give up?! After everything that has happened, your not going to even try?! You still don't know..... what truly matters....

A person's life doesn't end when they die, it ends when they lose faith. One who never has had true faith has never been alive either. Failure to acknowledge and ponder your own soul is failure to be born. Most of humanity is simply dead.

La vie n'a aucun sens pourtant personne ne veut mourrir

Lying is the message. Its not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way for the same purpose: blatantly, to assert power of the truth itself. The Putin Paradigm, New York Review of Books

All she wanted was for me to have a dream, a direction, to stop drifting. She wasn't the only one. I wanted me to stop drifting—still do.

We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence. We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.

Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you'd be happy to die doing.

The purpose gives you a reason, which

although the more specific the purpose, the better.

Have a clear purpose in mind. Why do you want to talk to this person?

There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.   —Nelson Mandela

To put my explanation in its boldest and most surprising form: bad news is manmade, top–down, purposed stuff, imposed on history. Good news is accidental, unplanned, emergent stuff that gradually evolves. The things that go well are largely unintended; the things that go badly are largely intended.

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.

If we will walk humbly with our God, He will lead us by the hand to exactly who and what we need, to those people, things, and experiences He has designed and intended for us, and this alone will be the cause of our deep fulfillment and happiness.

Let your life be guided by greatness

The way we consume information leads us to think less and less about more and more. We spend much of our time fixated on secondary questions (usually related to controversial and sensational issues) and very little time exploring the primary questions about our brief stay here on earth.

The problem is that without an understanding for their meaning and purpose, most relationships quickly become little more than vehicles for the pursuit of selfish and individual goals. Disagreements then become a battle between conflicting interests, rather than a search for a mutually satisfying resolution.

All the semantic elements share a distinguishing feature: They don't really do anything.

It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that his soul shows itself.

In younger years, he'd wonder whether he was more doctor or writer. Since the dark period back home, he questioned if he was really either—witnessing death all around him had robbed him of both.