Quotes About Purpose

Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

God is not impressed with grandiose accomplishments from someone who ignores his God-given calling to his wife and children.

It is far more important to me that I come to know my Lord in living reality than it is to be in ministry without it.

God did not have—but wanted very much to have—men and women who would live in pain. God wanted a broken vessel.

Every path serves a purpose.

Science knows still practically nothing about the real nature of matter, energy, dimension, or time; and even less about those remarkable things called life and thought. But whatever the meaning and purpose of this universe, you are a legitimate part of it.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness — as might be judged by certain standards — there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

Then what is the purpose of the Library?" Vale asked. "To save books," Irene said firmly.

Mother, please, hear me out. If there's something I've learned over the last few years, it's that everything people do is important. I happen to have chosen this particular thing to do with my life, and I was lucky enough to have the choice.

the question i am asked daily by the world... was that all you wanted?

There's only one thing I know about life. I know some things happen by chance, And some things happen because we make them happen.

Giving to others is where most of our energy is generated, when we give it comes back tenfold and allows us to give more and to channel the self-perpetuating energy into our life goal. 'The most sublime act is to set another before you.

There has never been a greater illusion than fear. Fear exists only whilst you believe in it - whilst you fear it. So...stop believing, stop fearing. Set up a shadow inventory, write down all your fears and set out on your warrior path. Make this your life purpose and gold will be smelt from your terror

Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell.

The most important thing about having goals is having one.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

Where you are is always where you are meant to be.

running anywhere is not the same as running somewhere.

A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.

And keep them thinking in terms of 'being good' as this is not an end so much as a means to something else —happiness, respect, self-esteem, etc… And whatever their true end is, take it away, and so goes their goodness.

Woyzeck, I shudder when I think that the earth takes a whole day to rotate. What a waste of time! And where's it going to end? Woyzeck, the very sight of a millwheel depresses me.

Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Sren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist, try to give your existence a meaning by setting up for yourself as lofty and noble a goal as you can.