Quotes About Purpose

When you set goals and you reach those goals in mid-August and early September, there's nothing to look forward to. You sort of lose your drive.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

I have never sought the reason why I write.

Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place.

I'd sell my soul for a good cause.

I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

In the end, I don't think you can find soul. Soul finds you.

We're in soul business here.

You know, you hear people talk about soul mates? That one person that you see, and that's it for you? Well, TOMS is the business equivalent of a soul mate for me.

I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.

I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.

It went way beyond just sex with Catherine. It was more like recognizing a time of shared destiny of our souls. We were both born to climb, and we each glimpsed the possibility of the perfect partner in the other.

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.

Not a day goes by that I don't look at myself in the mirror and ask God, 'Why me? Why did you choose me, Ainsley Earhardt from Columbia, South Carolina, to be one of a handful of female national news anchors?'

Some of the greatest businesses operating from a deeper purpose have a real commitment to service, like Four Seasons, Joie de Vivre hotels, Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue.

If I believe authority is raised by God - I understand I don't understand all things. And what those purposes are. He's a sovereign God.

The whole sector of public dialogue has been totally contaminated, deliberately, by the corporate sector. The whole purpose is to sow confusion and doubt, and it's worked.

The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.

Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.

Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need?