Quotes About Purpose

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;

You are here to kneel.

I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated?

A people without religion will in the end find out that it has nothing to live for.

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

But the circle of our understanding Is a very restricted area. Except for a limited number Of strictly practical purposes We do not know what we are doing; And even, when you think of it, We do not know much about thinking.

To be a 'ruined man' is itself a vocation.

All this was a long time ago, I remember, And I would do it again, but set down This set down This: were we led all that way for Birth or Death?

That is the reason. I keep Wishwood alive To keep the family alive, to keep them together, To keep me alive, and I live to keep them.

To fight a war, you must believe it can accomplish something. We fight this one to save John's kingdom, or perhaps even to save all of mankind... but isn't that what we always think? That all wars are useless—except the one we're fighting now?

We survive. But when survival is the only goal, what do the survivors become? This

God shapes us with a hammer of pain on an anvil of duty. I cannot imagine what shape we will be when He is finished.

There's sense, he told himself. You build something and then you stay there. That's the way it's meant to be. Not this running here, running there, never see your blood-family or your home roofs for a year at a time.

Order. I must find some order. If the universe has none, or at least none we can discern, well, then it is our job to give it some. I have always believed that.

A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.

The Berbers believe that when people are born, they are born with a story inside them, locked in their heart. It looks after them, protects them." Dr. Mehdi flicked the hood of his jelaba down onto his neck and sipped his coffee. "Their task is to search for their

do you choose to choose and actively create the kind of life that you want for yourself?

Time is a zero-sum game, a limited resource. Life is too short to do only what we have to do; it is barely long enough to do what we want to do.

I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.

You have a destiny. You aren't allowed to know it.

We are what we're made to be.

You are already for something. Do you know for what?

You must live every moment of your life in such a way that if you had to live it over and over again till infinity, this would be a good thing.

And it now occurred to me that maybe the whole point was, in fact, to lose yourself. But not in the sense of confusion--in the sense of connection to something bigger than yourself...Getting lost to be found.