Quotes About Purpose

Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it.

Films were always there at the back of my mind. I would try to move away, but films kept coming to me. I would do movies for friends. I guess some things are meant to be!

There are some things I'd like to get into in terms of what's important to me.

The journey from engineering to acting just happened. I guess some things are meant to be.

It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

My default position is not to be an actor. My default position is to be a follower of Jesus Christ. If that means I continue in acting, great! I'd love that. But if it means I need to change professions someday because I can't provide for my family, well, that's what I need to do.

Someday, I'll make the right connection with the house I'm meant to be in.

I knew that someday, I'd lose the fame. So, I have always kept in touch with my interests.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level.

It's always been my heart that God would save people through this crazy music somehow, someway, His way.

I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.

Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.

I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.

If, you know, all your life you're making films or whatever, and somehow along the way you lose meaning in whatever you're doing when you're making the films, they're just not the same as they used to be to you. That doesn't mean your life is over; it just means maybe go try to live a different life.

Do what you do and mean it every second of the day. If you don't, you're living someone else's life.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

Money can't heal your heart. Money can't give you purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I want purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I want peace. I don't want arms and legs, I want to be a miracle for someone else.

You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Be not simply good - be good for something.

I just know that I'mma do something in life. I'mma do something productive.

Find something that makes you happy and go for it.

Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's because I don't have clarity. This lack of clarity often arises from a feeling of ambivalence - I want to do something, but I don't want to do it; or I want one thing, but I also want something else that conflicts with it.