Quotes About Purpose

Man can live the most amazing things if they make sense to him. But the difficulty is to create that sense.

While the earth spins, make yourself useful.

On the stone slab beneath the chimney-piece are inscribed the words Non fatuum huc persecutus ignem – 'It is no will-o'-the-wisp that I have followed here.

Each child has something to teach us, a message that will help to explain why we are here. — from the Talmud

The odds are great, so great as to be almost impossible. But they are no greater than the odds against a soul landing in a human incarnation. And you," Rinpoche was staring right at me, "you have beaten those odds. And so I ask you, what are you going to do with this opportunity?

The problem is that a deep, sacred part of you will wither and die if you stay inside your Zone of Excellence

When I'm operating in my Zone of Genius, I am doing what I love to do and I'm enjoying what I have.

What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

But what if Shakespeare? and Hamlet? were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy.

She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?

Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?

Ever hear the one about that dog that spent its life chasing cars and finally caught one—and had no idea what to do with it? I'm that dog.

I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.

Maybe this is the point of it all. Maybe this is where the road is meant to end.

Has escuchado hablar de un perro que gastó su vida persiguiendo carros y cuando finalmente atrapó a uno… no tenía idea que hacer con él? Soy ese perro. -Adam

How can I come this far and not tell him-he, who would understand it best-that by giving me that flyer, by inviting me to skip Hamlet, he helped me realize that it's not to be that matters, but how to be? How can I come this far and not be brave?

They say that things happen for a reason, but I don't know that I buy that

I just want out. Out of my existence. I find myself wishing that a lot lately. Not to be dead. Or kill myself. Or any of that kind of stupid shit. It's more I can't help think what if I hadn't been born in the first place...

Live for Love.

This isn't about her. It was catalyzed by her, and she's woven up in it, but this is ultimately about him and his life and what he needs to do to make himself whole. He's stopped drifting, he's stopped being tossed around by the wind.

I needed to be somewhere where people wouldn't be sad, where the thoughts concerned life, not death.

On était dans son bureau obscur, décoré avec des affiches à visée éducative. L'une d'elles représentait des oies sauvages volant en formation, avec une légende qui disait : << Si tu sais où tu vas, tu iras loin. >>Pour ma part, je ne risquais pas d'aller bien loin, car on m'avait pris mes vêtements et mes chaussures.

No estoy segura de que este mundo siga siendo mi sitio. No estoy segura de querer despertarme