Quotes About Purpose

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way! Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.

We become like dead branches and last year's leaves and what the hell good are we for ourselves and the world in a mental ghetto.

There is never an end to our work. It is not given to us to complete it. Who completes his work? That is the way of the world, Asher. Only the Master of the Universe completed His work. And it is said that even the Master of the Universe needs humankind in order truly to complete the Creation. Without man, what is God? And without God, what is man? Everyone needs the help of someone to complete the work of Creation that is never truly completed. Everyone. An artist, a Rebbe, everyone.

About accidents we do not have many choices. Our job is to make better the world God gave us. We are partners with God. One day you will understand. We have to work hard to make it a good world. But it is not an impossible job.

A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing, But the man who lves that span, he is something… A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life. It is hard work to fill one's life with meaning.

A person has to have a reason for living, and the best reason is another person. Together they can make a plan for their lives.

Many people feel they are in possession of a great gift when they are young. But one does not always give in to a gift. One does with a life what is precious not only to one's own self but to one's own people.

a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant...

Without man, what is God? And without God, what is man? Everyone needs the help of someone to complete the work of Creation that is never truly completed. Everyone.

It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we don't mean gaining "self-knowledge" or understanding one's "true nature" but rather how at some point you can see most plainly that this is what you do, this is how you fit in the wider ecology.

Most of us can't accept that the gig is ours, so we lurk around, we tug and scratch at ourselves as if in borrowed skins, and never fully belong to the moments that can steadily add up to nothing a lot quicker than you think.

People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.

Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

It's not enough that we have to handle our own race's problems, Claude said. Now we're sucked into the fucking vampire struggles, too. No, I said, feeling I was walking uphill in this conversation. You as a group weren't sucked into the vampire struggles. One of you was taken for a specific purpose. Different scenario.

Humans who are born with the essential spark are born to experience or perform something wonderful, something amazing.

Well, if I'm not doing it for him, then I'm doing it for me, so I can feel proud.

When you become first lady, it's like, 'O.K., now what do you do?'

And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

I don't come to meets to count medals. It's not what I do. It's just really for me.

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

I don't really care much about being a meme. That's not what I want to be known for, as being a meme from 2016. That's not what I'm here for.