Quotes About Purpose

Paul never thought of himself as having chosen God—it was the other way: God had chosen him. This

If you set out to fail and you succeed, what have you done?

If you're only using your bed for sleep, then don't bother waking up.

Her short path through life had been written and it was not her right to know the meaning, only the outcome.

The worst thing,' she whispered to the cat as she stroked it, 'is not to be useful.

Should probably do

A thoughtful pause and then: 'Maybe to make it easy to find, but look like it's hard to find, so you'd find it but think it wasn't meant to be found, even though you only really found it because someone wanted it to be found?

I feel guilty because I think people should do something they really like to do in life. I should do something else, but there is nothing I can do really well. I'm established and make a steady living, so it becomes pretty easy. It's not very fulfilling . . . but I'm lazy, I admit it. It's an easier thing to do.

So, my credo consists of the pursuit and the act. One without the other is self-indulgence.

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread.

I can't imagine a job where you go home and maybe go by a year later and you don't know what you've done. My work, I can see what I did the first day I started. All my work is set right out there in the open and I can look at it as I go by. It's something I can see the rest of my life.

Nora Watson may have said it most succinctly. "I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly-line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

Perhaps each of us has a starved place, and each of us knows deep down what we need to fill that place. To find the courage to trust and honor the search, to follow the voice that tells us what we need to do, even when it doesn't seem to make sense, is a worthy pursuit.

Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

Vivir en un mundo donde las respuestas a las preguntas pueden ser tantas y tan buenas es lo que me hace salir de la cama y calzarme las botas cada mañana.

We want. When we stop wanting, we feel dead and want to want more. (p.232)

When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

It's your time to live, don't mess it up.

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in I think that's how dogs spend their lives.