Quotes About Purpose

Even the emotional comfort of a belief in an afterlife can go both ways. Would life lose its purpose if we ceased to exist when our brains die? On the contrary, nothing invests life with more meaning than the realization that every moment of sentience is a precious gift.

Parents get meaning from their children, but not necessarily happiness.

Door aan het licht te brengen dat de wetten die in het universum gelden geen doel hebben, dwingen wetenschappelijke krachten ons verantwoordelijkheid te nemen voor ons eigen welzijn, onze soort en onze planeet.

The beliefs, moreover, must be held in service of a goal. No one gets rationality credit for merely thinking true thoughts, like calculating the digits of ?

With this definition the case for rationality seems all too obvious: do you want things or don't you? If you do, rationality is what allows you to get them.

He measures our lives by how we love.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.

One of our greatest challenges as Christians is to be driven by the love of Christ rather than constantly seeking after God's comfort.

Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?

Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.

We don't just live in books awake and dreams asleep. We are living stories, you and I, with dreams inside us undeniable, with love to give and people to walk beside.

By pursuing the things you love, all the other things in life will fall into order.

Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.

To live; to love; to learn; and to leave a legacy.

You have to love what you do to the point that you can't imagine doing anything else with your life.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

It is great to love life. Accept life as a precious gift from the hand of God and strive to make the most of it.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.