Quotes About Purpose

Everybody has a vocation to some form of life work. But behind that and deeper than that, everybody has a vocation to be a person, to be fully and deeply a human being, to be Christlike. And the second thing is more important than the first. It is more important to be a great person than a great teacher, butcher or candlestick maker. And if the only chance of succeeding in the second is to fail in the first, the failure, from God's point of view, is fruitful.

May all that I know apart from You be nothing more than a chance traveling companion on the journey toward You.

discipleship, or the following of Christ, was not simply the most important thing in life—it was the only thing.

As Emile Leger said when he left his mansion in Montreal to go live in a leper colony in Africa, "The time for talking is over.

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal.

All that is not the love of God has no meaning for me. I can truthfully say that I have no interest in anything but the

God's love for you and his choice of you constitute your worth. Accept that, and let it become the most important thing in your life.

Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.

But this road doesn't go anywhere," I told him. "That doesn't matter." "What does?" I asked, after a little while. "Just that we're on it, dude," he said.

Zij ging vertrekken, maar zij wist nog niet waar zij uiteindelijk terecht zou komen. Zij moest iets volbrengen, maar zij had geen duidelijke voorstelling van wat dat was. Voorgevoel zei haar, dat een serene ouderdom voor haar niet was weggelegd.

Ik ga naar huis, hier dicht bij, naar wie ik liefheb, naar de mensen, met wie ik verbonden wil zijn. Jawel, mevrouw, die 'liaisons', altijd veranderend van kleur en inhoud, zijn de zin van mijn bestaan.

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Az új b?nözÅ' osztályok szimbiotikus rendszere mellé az orvostudomány megteremtett még valamit, ami annál is összehasonlíthatatlanul rosszab, a hosszú élettartamot, s vele egyre több öreget, akikre a társadalomnak nincs szüksége, akiknek nincs mit csinálniuk, s akiket nem tisztelnek.

No me importaba el sentido de la vida. Lo único que quería era saber cómo vivir. Tal vez si uno descubría cómo vivir podría deducir de ahí el sentido de la vida

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

As a day well spent gives joyful sleep, so does a life well spent give joyful death. —Leonardo da Vinci

F)or no word that has been uttered for the purpose of making man the master of his own fate has been spoken in vain.

Despite everything, I've tried to take responsibility for my life, and not merely allowed it to float away at the mercy of whatever current came along.

God allowed no mistakes.

Working with keys is always meaningful. Locking and opening is, in a sense, man's very purpose on this earth.

In the biological world children are the sole purpose. Nothing else matters.

Tener la posibilidad de decidir a qué quiere uno dedicar su vida es un gran privilegio.

La volontà di vivere. Quella forza che ti fa alzare dal letto ogni mattina quando fa giorno. Tutto può essere sostituito. Ma non questo.

there was no such thing as past or future. There was no time that could be lost or won. The only thing that counted was action.