Quotes About Purpose

man's being is essentially his own deed .

The will of man is his happiness.

Happiness in life is all about three things—something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." —JOHN F. KENNEDY

Being happy boils down to three things. Something to do. Someone to love. And something to look forward to.

You become a monk because you think there's no better choice for you. No other reason could make any sense.

We think we're doing our jobs for the paycheck, but Dogen says that's an illusion. The underlying, original reason we work is to give to others. The payment you receive is a kind of karmic payback for the service you give.

In this symphony that is my life, God is not content to be a member of the audience or stage crew. He is not even content to be the conductor. He wants to be the composer.

The Atonement of Jesus Christ does not just provide a way to clean up messes; it provides the purpose and desire to avoid making more messes. The Atonement doesn't allow us to ignore our appetites or pretend they don't matter, but to educate and elevate them.

The purpose of the plan of salvation is not to weed us out, but to offer us every possible chance to succeed. Mortality is a time of probation, but also a time of preparation (see Alma 42:10). Heaven is not a prize for the perfect, but the future home of all who are willing to be perfected.

A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to live.

Everyone all my life has been telling me it's just a phase that will pass; that it's something I can be working toward for my old age instead of wasting time on it now when I should be making money. That was exactly it, except that all at once I no longer saw any sense in spending the best years of my life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part.

The incarnate angel of Tolkien's mythology, Gandalf the Grey, said it well in a conversation with Frodo. "I wish it need not have happened in my time," laments the young Hobbit. "So do I," Gandalf replies, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Why should I live but to thy Praise? My life is hid with Thee; O Lord, no longer be my Days, Then I may fruitful be.

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?

A plan is simply what you decide to consciously & consistently focus on.

Solutions come from focusing on where you want to be, not whats right in front of you.

The key to living your dreams is to wake up.

What I'm looking for cannot be sold to me.

All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

Dreams give us hope, and without hope what is the point of living.

meaning and purpose of life hinged on what he chose to love and who he chose to become, the answer became clear. His heart already knew he should