Quotes About Purpose

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Dime, ¿qué es lo que piensas hacer con tu única vida salvaje y preciosa? MARY OLIVER, «The Summer Day»

Cada persona nace con una sola gracia la felicidad consiste en descubrirla a tiempo ...

Cada persona nace con una sola gracia y la felicidad consiste en descubrirla a tiempo...

Observo hacia atrás la totalidad de mi destino y con un poco de suerte encontraré sentido a la persona que soy.

Lo importante es lo que uno hace en este mundo, no cómo se llega a él

Para qué he vivido, Lucía? Antes de morir tengo que averiguar para qué estoy en este mundo. Es verdad lo que dices, he estado tanto tiempo anestesiado, que no sabría por dónde comenzar a vivir de nuevo. — Si me dejas, te puedo ayudar. — ¿Cómo? — Se empieza con el cuerpo. Te propongo que juntemos los sacos y durmamos abrazados. (...)

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

L'importante è quel che si fa al mondo, e non come ci si arriva.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

Does staying alive not only for yourself, but also because someone else expects you to, double the life force? Perhaps. Perhaps. Rachel

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn't know.

Sure I can sit around and do absolutely nothing for the next nine years and I might survive that long but it's not going to take New Zealand anywhere.

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I care about doing well in New Zealand?'

Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction.

I wouldn't have been able to go to drama school when I was 19. I don't think I was even conscious of life... I was like a zombie. But when I finished uni' I just realised... just go and do it, stop being a knob.

There are so many games where you fight aliens or zombies, and they have very high-fidelity graphics, but they don't ask the question of why the events are happening.

I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.

Live in the moment and make the most of every single hour that you're alive. Like it says on the sign outside the drop zone in front of the school: No Idling.

Isn't it about getting out of your comfort zone and getting off the couch and challenging yourself and forcing yourself to do things you wouldn't other do? Otherwise, what are you living for?

Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.

It's my job... to push people out of their comfort zones. But we got to have a reason to do it. We don't do it gratuitously.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.