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Quotes About Purpose

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not "to have and to hold" but "to give and serve." There can be no other meaning.
~ Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell
a sense that even if every scrap of a life were saved, thrown into a giant mound and then carefully sifted to extract all possible meaning, it would not add up to a life.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Desire is the engine of life, the yearning that goads us forward with stops along the way, but it has no destination, no final stop, except death.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I love my life, because I've seen my purpose.
~ Nick Vujicic
Love, life, meaning...over.
~ Stephenie Meyer
What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.
~ Wayne Muller
Obediance, when it flows out of genuine love for Jesus Christ, is never wasted and never regretted.
~ Leslie Ludy
A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.
~ Libba Bray
I love what I'm doing. It's my life. When it's time to go, I'll probably be fighting to get out of the casket. I'll be yelling at the priest instead of a referee.
~ Lou Duva
Your life has purpose as long as you dedicate it to love. It's not what we do but who we are that forms our biggest contribution.
~ Marianne Williamson
Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery.
~ Maya Angelou
If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.
~ Michael Craig-Martin
Somebody loves us, too - God Himself. We have been created to love and to be loved
~ Mother Teresa
I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.
~ Nora Ephron
Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
~ Pope John Paul II
If not for reverence, if not for wonder, if not for love, why have we come here?
~ Raffi
You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
~ Ray Bradbury
You do a job like mine because you love the job, not because it's going to make you famous.
~ Ray Winstone
I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give
~ Gloria Gaynor
I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.
~ Greg Lake
Jesus says, "Keep your heart on the kingdom first. Keep your heart on God's love. Keep focused on the fact that you are God's beloved daughter or son. That's the truth of who you are.
~ Henri Nouwen
I'm going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind - blind ambition, and it's kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I'll stick to it.
~ Katy Perry
The only thing that will really matter at the end of your life is: Did you love completely?
~ Kerry Shook
You've got to find what you love and let it kill you. I don't think any of us should ever forget that.
~ Kinky Friedman