Quotes About Purpose

You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.

What interests me is seeing a problem and doing something about it, not all of the stuff around it.

This goal can and must be attained in this life. But even if this does not happen, remember that he who has found the way once, always returns to this world with an internal maturity that enables him to continue his work.

Fame and fortune and the interstate is great and fun, but it ain't life.

Our society is intertwined with the economy that we've built, which is a fantastically complex system. I hope that my writing about it might do some good, but that's not why I do it.

So get accomplished what you want to get accomplished in your life. And in the intervals, do what you can to help other people.

And after my interview with the Bengals, I knew this was the job for me.

They must have begun in life knowing they were going to amount to something.

She knew exactly, sort of, what she was going to do.

You know you're doing the right thing if you don't have to tap-dance.

The trick has been to live in the contradictions while maintaining principles, beliefs, and purpose.

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail: knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life.

The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realised it he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers. It

The thing may sound absurd to you, but you can do it if you will: standing back, as it were, from the vague and purposeless reactions in which most men fritter their vital energies. Then you can survey with a certain calm, a certain detachment, your universe and the possibilities of life within it: can discern too, if you be at all inclined to mystical adventure, the stages of the road along which you must pass on your way towards harmony with the Real.

Life, more life, a larger, richer, more satisfying life, is in the last analysis the end of religion,

Here we part from the "nature mystics," the mystic poets, and all who shared in and were contented with the illuminated vision of reality. Those who go on are the great and strong spirits, who do not seek to know, but are driven to be.

If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.

Among the key reasons for wishing to spend another day in my life is the hope."

STATEMENTS Words that come forth from the mouth regardless of who spoke them, are important.... Words should not be wasted because: there is a word in those words that is the word meant for you to build your walls in this world

A wise person once said, "Anything worth doing is worth doing half-assed.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. Gravity, a mysterious carriage of the body to conceal the defects of the mind.

The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.

Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.