Quotes About Purpose

I read what Hallie said about not wanting to save the world, that you didn't choose your road for the reward at the end, but for the way it felt as you went along.

you can't legitimately criticize someone's tactics if you don't understand his objectives

She wondered what it was about men that wed them more to a way of doing things than to achieving their ostensible goals.

I think women are closer to God than we are. They walk right out there like they know what they're doing.

Whoever you are, be that person with all your might. Time goes by faster than we thought. It is a thief so quiet. You must let yourself be loved and you must love, parts of you that never loved must open and love. You must announce yourself in all particulars so you can have yourself.

It came to him, the very picture: he was an unshucked oyster, hurtling on the winds, all air, gonad and gut. Chances seemed in a loud hurry around him, but he could do nothing--nothing-- about them. Mestre yearned to be driven by some grand circumstance. Everything in his existence was too slack

The kind of dreams that give a whole life its bearing, what a person intends it should be, having seen those coasts.

to be satisfied with our work, we typically need a belief in the purpose of what we do. Amy

If we design workplaces that permit people to find meaning in their work, we will be designing a human nature that values work

If we make our own meanings, God will oblige us to answer our own questions: He will leave us in the void without the comfort of his word.

Intentions are not the same as motivations. The "intention" is what you want to accomplish; the "motivation" is the reason you want to accomplish it.

that they may live

That is, by showing what happens after death, the texts emphasize what matters in life, providing insight into the purpose, meaning, and goals of human existence so as to encourage certain ways of being and living in the world: attitudes, dispositions, priorities, commitments, life choices, beliefs, practices, public activities, relationships—in fact, almost everything involved with being a sentient and conscious human being.

Death shows that the summum bonum of life is to continue living it.

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them. We are not here to do what has already been done.

Again, he passed along General Armstrong's words, "What are Christians put into the world for except to do the impossible in the strength of God!

What's ka?" Eddie's voice was truculent. "I never heard of it. Except if you say it twice you come out with the baby word for shit.

Sometimes God dillies and dallies,' Steve said, 'and sometimes he just points at you and tells you to hang up your jock.

you wondered why in the hell the world had been created in the first place. Good things were in short supply, and so much of the rest was downright rancid.

Sometimes God dillies and dallies, and sometimes he just points at you and tells you to hang up your jock.

But the pistol, this Walther...it was as if it had been made for the express purpose of shooting people. With a chill Richie realized that was why it had been made. What else could you do with a pistol? Use it to light your cigarettes?

The strings that bind you tight to the map of your life

It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, 'what the hell did I want to jump over this stupid bar for?

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away—even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.