Quotes About Purpose

Nor should they be, but everyone needs to feel they're part of something worthwhile. That, in the last analysis, their life has some meaning in a larger context. The questions is what am I part of? What have I done?

Yehuda bile Tanr?'n?n plan?n?n bir parças?yd?.

I've come to realize that home is a feeling as much as it is a place; it is as much about loving what I do as being where I am.

home is a feeling as much as it is a place; it is as much about loving what I do as being where I am.

He had looked into the barrel of enemy rifles, the slavering jaws of a furious bear, the lifeless faces of his father and brother. He could build a home from the stripped timbers on up, shoot to kill nearly anything, expertly hold a newborn baby. He figured he'd been tested in more ways than Hercules, and in the end he supposed he was grateful that the war had sorted the entirety of his life into two categories for him: what was worth living for, what was worth dying for.

Once I have the target in my sights, he said, close to her ear, I think of what I love most in the world. What will happen if I miss? Will they be harmed? Will they go hungry? Will I see them again? He paused at length. Because I've learned that once you know what truly matters in life, and once you know who and what you truly love, then you know who you are...and your aim will always be true.

A barren woman served no purpose in this kingdom. Her very reason for existing had been snatched away.

If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you get there?

Something about knowing exactly what you're doing, and why.

It becomes easy, Finbar said. It's in the training; the ability to see your enemy as something other than a real man. He is a lesser breed, defined by his beliefs - you learn to do with him what you will, and bend him to your purpose.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

ViaÅ£a omului n-ar trebui s? fie scris? pe atatea petice de hartie risipite. ViaÅ£a e un jurnal legat, iar uneori înÅ£elegi o carte de la prima pagin?. Nu poÅ£i fi silit s?-Å£i faci datoria pentru o pagin? care n-are leg?tur? cu cele dinainte. Nu poÅ£i fi implicat ori de cîte ori cineva e gata s? moar? de foame

Pentru un b?rbat munca pare s? fie ceva esen?ial, care-l ajut? s?-ndure scurgerea f?r? ?int? a timpului.

Dragostea de c?min ?i obliga?ia au rost numai atata timp cat cineva pierde ceva, aruncandu-le cat colo.

The mask was no longer a means by which to get you back, but only a hidden camera through which to watch your betrayal of me. I had made the mask for the purpose of recovering myself. But it had willfully escaped from me and, taking great pleasure in its evasion, had become defiant;

But this means you exist only for the purpose of clearing away the sand doesn't it?

And who is it that gives you your strength? He who gives you your clear vision.

That is what you're making of the end of your mother's life, child. What will you make of your own?

She was no longer a child, to be cowed or forced into submission, but a grown woman with a definite purpose and an invincible determination.

Even if, by some especially unfortunate fate or by the niggardly provision of stepmotherly nature, [the good will] should be wholly lacking in the power to accomplish its purpose; if with the greatest effort it should yet achieve nothing, and only the good will should remain (not, to be sure, as a mere wish but as the summoning of all the means in our power), yet would it, like a jewel, still shine by its own light as something which has its full value in itself.

She who does not make the world better for having lived in it has failed to be all that woman should be.

We are meaning-seeking creatures.

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair.