Quotes About Purpose

Destiny is all, Ravn liked to tell me, destiny is everything. He would even say it in English, "Wyrd biõ ful ãræd.

Why do we fight?" he asked. "Because we were born.

And the purpose is for God to experience his potential. God's ideas and abilities become God's experience in the life of every sentient being. What greater purpose could there be for each of us humans than that of creating God's experience? God experiences the richness of his potential through us because we are the incarnations of him in the physical realm.

We understand the rules because we made them up—not in the state we currently find ourselves as human beings, of course, but back when we were literally one with God, before God decided to temporarily become us.

Ultimately, however, there is no absolute good or bad, no timeless right or wrong, only that which does or does not advance our (i.e. God's) existential purpose. Rules of proper behavior depend upon time and place, because the consequences of the things we do largely depend on the context in which they are done. Consider how the sex act can be a crime or a consummation of love, depending solely on the context in which it is performed.

For our purposes here, the term "spiritual worldview" is shorthand for the supposition that reality—your own nature and your conscious being—involve both tangible, physical matter and an immaterial "something." This immaterial "something" is intimately, indeed essentially, involved in the existence of consciousness and life, and is ultimately traceable to a divine origin and purpose.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself." (Interview, New York Post Magazine , September 14, 1958)

There are two terrible things for a man: not to have fulfilled his dream, and to have fulfilled it.

At times, he heard the 'call' with every fibre of his being. For some time, I have been hearing it too. And that, perhaps, is the long way.

Le but d'une vie lucide est d'aboutir à une déconfiture qui servira de leçon à tous ses contemporains. Car on n'apprend jamais de la victoire, on n'apprend que de la défaite.

The only serious enterprise is living.

Dominique began to regret allowing Nzinga to do everything and make decisions for her she started to yearn to do the housework herself, yearn to cook, to clean, to do a job that was more intellectually demanding her life was becoming empty of purpose other than to love Nzinga unconditionally, and, increasingly, obey her even the simplest things became a source of difficulty

I'm sorry that your journey into my life was such that you had to endure so much suffering. But if that is the road God had you travel in order for our paths to cross, then we have no choice but to accept the purpose it has served and be grateful for it.

If you don't know where you're going, you might wind up someplace else.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else.

When you walk with purpose, you collide with destiny.

without a vision, people perish!

destiny is what we think of as life, while life is the process of destiny!

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Why be a man when you can be a success.

Geh ich zeitig in die Leere Komm ich aus der Leere voll Wenn ich mit dem Nichts verkehre Weiß ich wieder, was ich soll Wenn ich liebe, wenn ich fühle Ist es eben auch Verschleiß Aber dann, in der Kühle Werd ich wieder heiß

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

In order to be happy we require all kinds of supports to our self-esteem. We are human beings, therefore human beings are the purpose of god's creation

Three passions, simple but overwhelming, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.