Quotes About Purpose

and that is what heaven is for, for understanding your life on Earth.

You marked the minutes, the old man said. But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?

You cannot ask things to do what they are not meant to do. Eventually, they will break.

If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more.

Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.

The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it's all an accident.

You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.

I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue.

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.

There are no random acts.

What will you do with the time you have left?

But none of us are assured of tomorrow. It's what we do with today that makes an impact.

I lived, Dor said, but I was not alive.

What is the reason?' 'Finish your journey and you will know.

If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are

some things you endure for a reason

All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you. Eddie was skeptical. His fists stayed clenched. What? he said. That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

Not aging is not the same as living

intentions. That's important in music, too. Critically important. What you're thinking about can be what you become.

Begitu kita ingin tahu bagaimana kita akan mati, berarti kita belajar tentang bagaimana kita harus hidup (hal 87, Selasa Bersama Morrie)

Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I read? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be?' He turned his head to his shoulder as if the bird were there now. Is today the day I die? he said.

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?

Die as a sacrifice is more worthy then a suicide

the word dying was not synonymous with useless.