Quotes About Purpose

There is a greater will, a greater need and purpose hidden within each life, and there is an inner law that knows best how each must live and that is worth stealing for; it's worth dying for, and worth living for as well.

What's secretly in the water of modern culture is that people enter the world empty. That's a very dangerous idea, because if everybody's empty than other people can get us to do whatever they want because there's nothing in us to stand against it. But if we came to do something that's meaningful, that involves giving and making the world a more beautiful, healthy, lively place, then you become a difficult person to move around and manipulate.

To be purposeful is not to be goal oriented, but to seek to reconnect to the source of one's life.

Man can live by bread alone when all his energies are devoted to attaining that bread, but once his mind is clear, once he has ceased to labour through all his waking hours to find food, then he begins to think.

You spend your lives chasing that which is within you and that which you can find in any other human being - but you will not look for it there - you must follow more glamorous paths - to waste your time in order to discover that you have wasted your time.

I think I was born to sail, and I mean that. So when I set off on my great sailing adventure, it was because I wanted to do it.

In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That is what she thought, though what is most untrustworthy about our natures and self-worth is how we differe in our own realities from the way we are seen by others.

I am a man who fasts until I see what I want.

Do we eventually become what we are originally meant to be?

Could you waste your life on a gift? If you did not use your gift, was it a betrayal?

Now it seemed to others he had choreographed the arc of his career in order to attempt this one trick on the world.

The Bedouin were keeping me alive for a reason. I was useful, you see. Someone there had assumed I had a skill when my plane crashed in the desert. I am a man who can recognize an unnamed town by its skeletal shape on a map. I have always had information like a sea in me. I am a person who if left alone in someone's home walks to the bookcase, pulls down a volume and inhales it. So history enters us.

How did these organs of plant sex manage to get themselves cross-wired with human ideas of value and status and Eros? And what might our ancient attraction for flowers have to teach us about the deeper mysteries of beauty - what one poet has called this grace wholly gratuitous? Is that what it is? Or does beauty have a purpose? (64)

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.

its power to imbue everything in our field of experience with a heightened sense of purpose and consequence.

The great advantage of being a reasonable creature is that you can find a reason for whatever you want to do

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

When I think back on my childhood and the things that happened to me, there were certain periods of time where I felt like I was being saved for something. I feel like I have a gift, and it would be a sin to waste it.

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books.

God told me, 'I gave you the music, Al. Sing the music I gave you - all the music.' So I did.

I keep coming back because I have no place else to go. What else would I do? I love to sing.

I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.