Quotes About Purpose

Perché farla, una cosa, se non credi che abbia un grande potenziale.

The lines mean that one doesn't have to be a god or a king for your life to have meaning.

There's a difference between being alive and living

Nadie viaja sin motivo. Quien se pierde es porque desea perderse.

Sadie and Marx took a cab back to the hotel. "Do you mind what your father said?" she asked him. "No," Marx said. "I loved being a student actor. I was fully devoted to it, and now I'm not. I think if I'd become a professional, I would likely have fallen out of love with it anyway. It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

I suppose we drink and we smoke for the same reasons it is done elsewhere. We must fill our infinite days with something.

Ninguém viaja sem propósito. Aqueles que estão perdidos querem estar perdidos.

We do things without knowing entirely why, just because our heart tells us that we must" -Theo

Life is Imperfect, God created us to try to make it perfect.

True religion is not a meditation on death, but a meditation on life.

Housework would never be her crowning achievement, the life's work for which she'd be known.

But the point is not to spin the narrative; that defeats the purpose, in some way, of story itself. You can't change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn't make the mistake that might have saved your life a day later. We don't get those choices. The story is what got you here, and embracing its truth is what makes the outcome bearable.

So the ultimate winner in the game of business is not necessarily the person with the most power or the most money or the most fame. Rather it's the person who loves his or her work.....

Did it matter whether I was a bad hamster or a good hamster? I was still running on a wheel to nowhere.

Gather the best you have to offer and create a heartfelt, prosperous life full of purpose.

As we reach midlife, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.

To come through this authenticity crisis, we must reexamine our purposes and reevaluate how to spend our resources from now on. "Why am I doing all this?" "What do I really believe in?" No matter what we have been doing, there will be parts of ourselves that have been suppressed and now need to find expression. "Bad" feelings will demand acknowledgment along with the good.

No matter how different the forms we choose, our concentration during the Trying Twenties is on mastering what we feel we are supposed to do.

Just remember, Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you're fighting for.

To have strength without knowing how to use it means nothing.

We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves.

I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Whatever happens. Whatever what is is is what I want. Only that. But that.

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.