Quotes About Purpose

She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean?

Faith aside, witchcraft served an eminently useful purpose. The aggravating, the confounding, the humiliating all dissolved in its cauldron. It made sense of the unfortunate and the eerie, the sick child and the rancid butter along with the killer cat. What else, shrugged one husband, could have caused the black and blue marks on his wife's arm?

The the purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.

El que busca el cielo en la tierra se ha dormido en clase de geografía

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?' 'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.

For moral reasons ... the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created ... intentionally.

Sam Pickett, English teacher and former basketball coach at Willow Creek High School, scrounged for sleep in his tangled bed. He was thirty-six years old and he hadn't a clue as to who he was or what his life was about. He bore a wound he couldn't heal. He

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought it can be filmed.

I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis.

Decide what is sacred to you, and put your best life energies at its service. Make that the focus of your studies, your work, the test for your pleasures and your relationships. Don't ever let fear or craving for security turn you aside." When you serve your passion, when you are willing to risk yourself for something, your greatest creative energies are released. Hard work is required, but nothing is more joyful

A woman is a warrior too. But she is meant to be a warrior in a uniquely feminine way. Sometime before the sorrows of life did their best to kill it in us, most young women wanted to be a part of something grand, something important.

He made you you - on purpose. You are the only you - ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves.

Awakening and owning the dreams that God has placed in our hearts isn't about getting stuff or attaining something. It's about embracing who we are and who he has created us to be. In him. He is our dream come true, and the one true love of our life. But we can't love him with our whole hearts when our hearts are asleep. To love Jesus means to risk coming awake, to risk wanting and desiring.

He made you you—on purpose. You are the only you—ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves. He looks at us with pleasure and with mercy, and he wants us to look at ourselves with pleasure and mercy too!

En fait, l'une des preuves qu'une architecture est bonne, c'est qu'on l'utilise comme l'architecte l'avait conçu.

we find nothing that gives our lives an objective meaning.

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

Para qué vivimos, si el viento tras nuestros zapatos ya se está llevando nuestras últimas huellas?

Belli bir hedefi olmayan her hayat bir hatad?r.

An intellect that does not have a fixed target is as good as lost. Whoever wants to be everywhere is nowhere. No wind blows for him who has no harbour.

Life is servitude if we lack the freedom to die.

and there's no point in a life lived aimlessly.

Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years, waiting until I finally felt tempted to find some circle of influence for myself.

Tu étais pour moi - comment dirai-je? toute comparaison serait trop faible - tu étais précisément tout pour moi, toute ma vie. Rien n'existait que dans la mesure où cela se rapportait à toi; rien dans mon existence n'avait de sens que si cela me rapprochait de toi. Tu métamorphosais ma façon de vivre.