Quotes About Purpose

Come now, ladies. That's enough," he told them. "We have serious work to do here.

Norman Mailer was once asked how he felt when he wasn't working. "Edgy, I get into trouble," he replied. "I would say I'm wasting my substance completely when I'm not working." I feel the same way.

A person is rich when he lives a joyful balanced life with a clear understanding of the role he is intended to play during his few years on the planet. if he can give and receive love in equal measure, has health and freedom, a touch of wisdom and an unquenchable thirst for living, and on top,of that is fulfilling his true purpose , then he is indeed rich.

He who has got rid of the disease 'Tomorrow' has the possibility to attain what he is here for.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Good intentions are not the whole story. You must also pay attention.

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there

A servant with this clauseMakes drudgery divine:Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws,Makes that and th' action fine.

Be useful where thou livest.

Teach me, my God and King,In all things thee to seeAnd what I do in any thing,To do it as for thee.

Now I am here; what thou wilt do with me None of my books will show: I read and sigh and wish I were a tree, For sure, then I should grow To fruit or shade: At least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.

who aimeth at the sky, Shoots higher than he that means a tree.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

Intentionality fuels the master's journey. Every master is a master of vision.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

He who speaks of his own accord seeks glory for himself; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is no deception in his heart.

4 I must do the works of him who sent me, while it is day; the night comes when no man can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.

Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Behold the life at ease; it drifts,The sharpened life commands its course.

To seek enlightenment, intellectual or spiritual; to do good; to love and be loved; to create and to teach: these are the highest purposes of humankind. If there is meaning in life, it lies here.

I could not continue just sitting and writing, looking after my daughter and my house, running merely to stay fit, pursuing only what could not be seen, watching the seasons cycling past without ever quite belonging to them.