Quotes About Purpose

Young people often struggle with pointless pursuits until they realize for themselves that they are pointless. And that, in fact, is the point.

It takes being together to another level when you go to bed for a purpose larger than your own feelings.

Before, I had my good job and my gold cuff links. What do I have today? Only my character. I know she can't wear my character on her left hand, and I know it doesn't pay bills or father children. But it's what I have and I believe that it should count for something. Thank you, sir, for reading this.

But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch.

You don't write a book for a market, a publisher, or an agent; you write it because your heart calls you to write it." — @tayari

My literary success meant nothing to me.

La búsqueda de D•os y la revelación final son las únicas cosas que dan sentido a la vida del hombre.

Si alguien se siente desgraciado, que recuerde que se siente infeliz por él mismo; porque Dios ha creado a todos los hombres para que gocen de la felicidad y de su constancia

And when their goal was obtained, they had only two choices before them: gaining even more power, world without end, or dying of frustration when they consciously, or unconsciously, realized that this was not what they had wanted at all, that it gave them no delight, and the world they had attained was empty of everything. They had narrowed their existence; like a projectile, they were trained on only one target." He walked on, and Cornelia followed

I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.

The ray of light has to know where it will ultimately end up before it can choose the direction to begin moving in" "Fermat's principle sounds weird because it describes light's behavior in goal-oriented terms. It sounds like a commandment to a light beam: "Thou shalt minimize or maximize the time taken to reach thy destination.

We experienced events in an order, and perceived their relationship as cause and effect. They experienced all events at once, and perceived a purpose underlying them all. A minimizing, maximizing purpose.

It's no coincidence that "aspiration" means both hope and the act of breathing.

We human beings may not be the answer to the question why, but I will keep looking for the answer to how. This search is my purpose; not because you chose it for me, Lord, but because I chose it for myself. Amen.

From the beginning I knew my destination, and I chose my route accordingly. But am I working toward an extreme of joy, or of pain? Will I achieve a minimum, or a maximum?

You'll do what makes you happy, and that'll be all I ask for.

Science is not just the search for the truth," he said. "It's the search for purpose.

Like physical events with their causal and teleological interpretations, every linguistic event had two possible interpretations: as a transmission of information and as the realization of a plan.

He considers intelligence to be a means, while I view it as an end in itself.

the ray of light has to know where it will ultimately end up before it can choose the direction to begin moving in.

Dana nodded. "We like the idea that there's always someone responsible for any given event, because that helps us make sense of the world.

But if it's in fact true that you have no purpose in mind for me, then that sense of fulfillment has arisen solely from within myself.

This search is my purpose; not because you chose it for me, Lord, but because I chose it for myself.

The universe began as an enormous breath being held. Who knows why, but whatever the reason, I am glad that it did, because I owe my existence to that fact.