Quotes About Purpose

That which serves life is the business of women. [Jeremiah, to Queen Maacha]

Proof of Your existence? There is nothing but.

El hombre se hizo para el mundo, y no el mundo para el hombre.

Calculating the value of a life in days and years is a fools arithmetic; the only true measure of our lives is how richly we spend our allotted time, and how much of ourselves we share along the way.

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

We are sent into this world for some end. It is our duty to discover by close study what this end is and when we once discover it to pursue it

It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!

I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?

The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.

At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service.

Passion is born when you catch a glimpse of your true potential.

Now the crucial question no longer seemed to be what life was, but what one was to do with this valueless, yet somehow uniquely valuable life?

I had no fear, only one will and one desire. I was going to do it for him.

Désormais, la question essentielle n'était plus de savoir ce qu'était la vie, mais de décider de ce qu'il fallait faire de cette vie sans valeur, et pourtant, en quelque sorte, d'un prix unique.

L'afturganga non convoca mai invano. E il suo dono porta sempre su un sentiero

I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference.

Changing your birth name is like divorcing your Self from Your Divine Plan.

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

C. S. Lewis wrote that we think at first God is going to turn us into a "decent little cottage," but as deep, wrenching changes continue to be made, we realize that he is building a palace. "He intends to come and live in it himself.

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life -- physical, intellectual, and moral life.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.