Quotes About Purpose

Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.

nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.

Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.

All the people, all the events in your life are put there for a reason. What you choose to do with them is up to you

You gave your life to become the person you are right now Was it worth it?

Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in awhile and watch your answers change.

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Here's the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't

Jonahtan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short,and with these gone from his thought,he lived a long life indeed.

In order to live free and happily,    you must sacrifice       boredom.                    It is not always an easy                       sacrifice

Tienes idea de cuántas vidas debimos cruzar antes de que lográramos la primera idea de que hay más en la vida que comer, luchar o alcanzar poder en la Bandada? ¡Mil vidas, Juan, diez mil! Y luego cien vidas más hasta que empezáramos a aprender que hay algo llamado perfección, y otras cien para comprender que la meta de la vida es encontrar esa perfección y reflejarla.

A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth. The same rule holds for us now, of course: we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

You gave your life to become you are right now. Was it worth it?

Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and follows a meaning, a higher purpose for life? For a thousand years we have scrabbled after fish heads, but now we have a reason to live — to learn, to discover, to be free!

In every disaster, in every blessing, ask, Why me?       There's a reason, of course, there's an answer.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go....

YaÅŸamak için ne çok neden var! bal?kç? teknelerinin etraf?nda o rutin, s?k?c? dönüp dolaÅŸmadan baÅŸka nedenler de var yaÅŸamak için. cehaletimizi k?rabiliriz, becerilerimizi, yeteneklerimizi ve zekam?z? kullanarak kendimizi bulabilir, kendimiz olabiliriz. en önemlisi, özgür olabiliriz, uçmay? öÄŸrenebiliriz

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock?

Until he found that bird, life would remain gray and bleak, illogical, without purpose; every seagull would remain a coincidental collection of blood and feathers pointed toward oblivion.