Quotes About Purpose

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?

The self-help movement that began in the latter half of the twentieth century suffers particularly from this flaw, for the personal and interpersonal skills it seeks to cultivate are almost always designed to get us more of what we think we want, rather than to bring about a change of heart.

The world determines wealth and success by what you have. God determines wealth and success by what you give. Success is not about what you get but what you become. You

Direction is not of any use to a person who is not moving. God

I didn't know what to do next. Doing something is always the best way to think

The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.

LESSON XIII. RAIN, WIND, AND SNOW. IMAGER Watch the pretty snowflakes fall, Some are large and some are small; Look, they cover all the ground, Miles of dazzling white around; But this covering, I am told, Keeps the earth from frost and cold. Ah! and I must work alway, Life's not meant to spend in play; Every moment's fleeting fast, And our day will soon be past; If our work is truly done, It will last though ages run. Of what use is rain? Of what use is snow? Of what use is wind?

Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?

Sanity begins with knowing your place.

when all is said and done, our own existence is an experiment of nature, an attempt at a new synthesis.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.

Somewhere, right at the bottom of one's own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call "I" behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

Where your fear is, there is your task.

The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise I am dependent upon the world's answer.

Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.

The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.