Quotes About Purpose

A life, not merely existence. That was her dream.

Una y otra vez había vuelto los ojos a Dios para pedirle ayuda, ofrecerle su fe. Quería creer que no estaba ni sola ni a cargo de nadie, sino que su vida se desarrollaba de acuerdo con Sus designios, incluso si ella no podía verlos. Ahora

Remember that God's plan for you might be different than the plan you have for yourself.

that in moments like this, it doesn't matter what you were born to be. It matters what you choose to become.

sometimes, we only discover our calling in life when things are darkest.

I mean that sometimes, we only discover our calling in life when things are darkest.

think you're sad. And I think you're searching for purpose. But becoming someone's mistress is not the way to find yourself.

It's not the life I planned, but somehow, it's the life I was intended to have. And now, finally, I'm ready to embrace it.

But they're words that remind us that there's something out there greater than ourselves. And they're words that lead us to be the best versions of ourselves.

You see, when you look back on things later in life, it's sometimes easier to see the purpose. So perhaps for now, it's best to try your hardest to focus on what lies ahead. The future is still something that can be changed, isn't it?

The truth is, since the day I met her, it's all been for her. My whole life. My whole existence. I don't know how I'll say good-bye.

In his view, we were already a success, because we were doing something hard and it was something that mattered to us. You don't measure things like that with words like success or failure, he said. Satisfaction comes from trying hard things and then going on to the next hard thing, regardless of the outcome. What mattered was whether or not you were moving in a direction you thought was right.

farming takes root in you and crowds out other endeavors, makes them seem paltry. Your acres become a world. And maybe you realize that it is beyond those acres or in your distant past, back in the realm of TiVo and cubicles, of take-out food and central heat and air, in that country where discomfort has nearly disappeared, that you were deprived. Deprived of the pleasure of desire, of effort and difficulty and meaningful accomplishment.

Ask, 'What's the meaning in this crisis? What's it trying to teach?' . . . Hard times can be gifts. They can force us to change and get us where we're meant to be.

Mix the Protestant impulse to find the meaning and purpose in everything with the Enlightenment's empiricism, and you get our American mania for connecting all the dots,*5 irrationality in rationalist drag.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing.

There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.

Wo kämen wir hin, wenn jeder sagte, wo kämen wir hin und keiner ginge, um zu sehen, wohin wir kämen, wenn wir gingen.

The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing

Te conformas con muy poco, Aki -dije. -No, qué va. Pido muchísimo - respondió-. Lo que pasa es que no quiero perder esa felicidad. Tengo la intención de llevármela conmigo, vaya a donde vaya, y para siempre.

It's not what I can do; it's what I will do. If you wake up and try to help one person and change that person's life, every obstacle you face in front of you is worth it.