Quotes About Purpose

We are pushed by our pain until we are pulled by our vision.

Some people think what you're supposed to do in life is fill yourself up with loads of things like names, the more the better. But that's not how it works.

If it wasn't possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present's cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?

I have to write. It's not an option. When I write, I am literally building myself a place in which to live. Once I'm firmly established within the narrative I pop awake in the morning and it's the first thing I think about. Not in an analytical way, as in "Oh, I haven't really reached the crisis point and it's already page 200—I'd better work on that." It's very much just running towards and into the place I most want to be.

I'm just pulling up these weeds.' 'Why?' She thought about this for a second. 'Well, they don't belong here.' 'Oh. Where do they belong, then?' 'They're just weeds, love, they don't belong anywhere.' Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip and furrowed her brow. 'That doesn't seem very nice. Everything belongs somewhere.

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done. —Thomas à Kempis

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. —Sivananda Saraswati

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. —Bob Dylan musician

need you to go to Catasaga, Nick. Indefinitely.

But there's more to why I chose you.

letter. That's exactly what I am in God's hand—a little pencil. God is writing his love letter to the world in this way, through works of love.

If we can find a purpose for accepting his cross as Jesus Christ accepted his own then one will never feel alone.

God has his own ways and means to work in the hearts of men and we do not know how close they are to him, but by their actions we will always know whether they are at his disposal or not.

Don't count the days, make the days count. -Muhammad Ali Build

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin Many

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them. - Tony Robbins

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. - Katherine Whitehorn Don't

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

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't. - Chuck Palahniuk

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

Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. - Steve Jobs.

It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place. - Unknown