Quotes About Purpose

But beliefs are neither moral nor immoral. They may be accurate or inaccurate, founded or unfounded, but they acquire moral significance only when they are shaped to serve some ulterior purpose that is either moral or immoral.

69 The Smithsonian's own view of its mission was that it should "tell visitors immediately what we are about and how we'd like them to change."70 In other words, the purpose of a taxpayer-supported institution is to express the ideologies of those who run it and to brainwash the visiting public with the vision of the anointed.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Not at all; I don't believe in the human soul. I never have. I believe that people are like portmanteaux—packed with certain things, started going, thrown about, tossed away, dumped down, lost and found, half emptied suddenly, or squeezed fatter than ever, until finally the Ultimate Porter swings them on to the Ultimate Train and away they rattle.…

When the source of the anger is understood and enough of the old feelings are released, the natural force behind the anger can be transmuted into intention. When the anger is fully expressed over time, the powerful energy that was used first to deny that it existed, then to facilitate its expression, still remains. This energy can be transformed into strength of purpose, power of intention to shape life the way we want it to be.

a dream without a plan is just a wish

You can live your life out of circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision. WERNER ERHARD

All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another. —Debbie Ford

We have to stop asking why this is happening to me and start asking why it is happening for me.

What makes life worth living is being actively engaged in becoming the finest, most delicious human being you can possibly be in this lifetime.

As author Daphne Rose Kingma says, "Love is trying to find us." Love is insisting that we up the ante. Love works these days only when entered into for loving reasons—to extend and expand, to give and to grow, to bless and be blessed.

When human relationships fail . . . they fail because they were entered into for the wrong reason. —Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God, Book 1

Identity is destiny. If you allow your life to be defined by lies or by people who do not truly know who God created you to be, then you will be robbed of both your true identity and your full destiny. Our identity must come from and be found in the Lord.

I am a child of God, I am the offspring of the King, and therefore I am an heir to His kingdom! And just like Jesus, I still have work to do.

And whatever defines us has power over us. Identity is destiny. If you allow your life to be defined by lies or by people who do not truly know who God created you to be, then you will be robbed of both your true identity and your full destiny. Our identity must come from and be found in the Lord.

To those of us who are alienated from home, marginalized, cast out, or lost, God is crying out: I am your Father! I will do anything to buy you back, restore you to my family. Or as Jeremiah 29:11 says, "to give you hope and a future.

You have to do something after a while, don't you?

If you don't know where you're going, you may miss it when you get there

The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful.

I am doing it because the time is now, and I am here.

Ah, Abby thought, if only they knew and trusted in God's love! It was all the strength and comfort one could ever need. It was a light to guide one through the darkness. It lent purpose and direction when nothing else seemed to matter.

You mean," Sylvia interrupted, "something that floats around aimlessly? With no mind? No purpose?" "Well. Yeah." "Wow," she said in true awe. "The stars could be filled with government employees." Dusty

All my life, I have taken satisfaction in finishing things in order that I may experience a sense of achievement, regardless of whether the thing was really worth achieving. ... Death, I suspect, will likely be unsatisfying because I will no longer be present to feel the achievement thereof.

Heaven isn't a place, Fanning!...Why does everyone assume it's a destination - some cerebral version of Grand Central Station? It's a state of being! The unshakeable certainty of who you are and where you fit in the world! The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune aside, we suffer most when we try to be someone or something we're not." (page 220)