Quotes About Purpose

You are what you love.

Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?

I love just being passionate about something rather than just caring about the money or whos in the movie.

Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.

Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.

I love what I'm doing for a living.

Following the path of love is always your soul's true desire.

...It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at.

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.

All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.

God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

Some people simply knew what they were supposed to be doing and did it, and those people were the worst of all. Stevie's brain had to hit a white-hot pitch of panic before it was willing to do any real work. It would work quickly then. It was a good brain, but it had only two modes—fog and frenzy.

I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist. If it is child's play, an extension of make believe - something one is frequently assured by people who write about writing - how to account for the overriding wish to do that, just that, only that, and consider it as rational an occupation as riding a bicycle over the Alps?

If your life isn't exactly the way you want it to be by the time you are forty-five, said Walter's father, whom he admired, not much point in continuing. You might as well hang yourself.

Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.

I will not be what I was made, but what I make.

Freedom isn't just something you have for the sake of having, you have to want something else first and then want the freedom to fight for it.

Selfless suffering feels good for short crusades, but as a way of life, it's unsustainable.

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.

Though we may not be able to see His purpose or His plan, the Lord of heaven is on His throne and in firm control of the universe and our lives.

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.

May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.