Quotes About Purpose

You only know who you are in opposition to something, what you choose to fight for and against. The rest doesn't matter.

I'm not here to argue for the world. That's not in my job description. I'm just trying to save it.

Oxygen is trivial. Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again.

There aren't many crimes in my book. Not many sins either. But top on both of those lists is killing time. Have fun with it, make something cool, play video games, work hard if you feel like it, but do something. Killed time is an abortion, life that never gets lived, gone, just gone.

I will choose anything over fear. Rage is fuel. Rage is gasoline. And Ryodan wasn't completely right—because rage, wielded as a weapon, with focus, purpose, and skill, is also massively useful energy. Anger can refine, distill, clarify.

TIME IS THE ONLY TRUE GOD, AND I AM FOREVER. THEREFORE, I AM GOD. Your logic is flawed. Time is not forever. It is always. Past, Present, and Future. There was a time in the past when you did not exist. Therefore, you are not God. I CREATE. I DESTROY. With the whimsy of a spoiled child. YOU FAIL TO DIVINE THE MASTER DESIGN. EVEN THAT WHICH YOU CALL CHAOS HAS PATTERN AND PURPOSE.

Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?

Silently, without questioning her luck—luck always favors the arrow that knows its goal—she ascends the stairs.

There are no coincidences in this world, Drustan, his father had said. You must see with the eagle's eye. You must detach, lift above a conundrum, and map the terrain of it. Everything happens for a reason, if you can but discern the pattern.

A superhero isn't something you play at sometimes—it's something you are. Full-time, all the time, every day.

God does not step in and adjust minute details on a whim.

One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can't breathe around it and you realize you don't need air. Oxygen is trivial. Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset. To touch the one you love. To try again.

Its our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.

Don't just write a "To Do" list. Write a "To Be" list.

Life is short. Be silly. Have fun. Love the people who treat you right, forget the ones who don't. Regret nothing. Believe everything happens for a purpose… and seek that purpose!

We can do nothing of any measure for Him, save loving Him. Bella teaches us that is enough. In fact, it is all that matters.

How then shall we live? Fully. Intentionally. Attentively. Lovingly.

Because whether I live for another seventy years or another week, what's the point if I'm not living the life I want?

We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

You ain't dead yet, so you ain't done.

Everybody dies. But not everybody lives.

I stared back at him, trying to think of a way to explain how I'd eradicated the word "want" from my vocabulary long ago and replaced it with "need." It made life so much easier that way, blowing away all the unnecessary and distracting clutter from a life of purpose, much like I imagined a storm sweeping away anything not strong enough to withstand the struggle.

Do I want to know where I came from? Yes. But that doesn't impact who I want to be.

I think we're all born with an internal compass that leads us to where we're meant to be. And whether it's a good place or a bad place, there's nothing you can do about it. I think our best friends are the people whose compasses are pointed in the same direction. That's how we find one another