Quotes About Purpose

Wishes don't just come true. They're only the target you paint around what you want. You

Aruna...has long decided that decided she will only spend what little time she has on things that make her happy

Aruna...has long decided that she will only spend what little time she has on things that make her happy.

How can you make your life meaningful when you know you are unhappy?

Billy Graham was for the hereafter. I'm for the here and now.

do I want to spend my days? How much time do I think I have?" Her expertise

Without ever having met the Dharma, the Buddha's legacy to the world, and without having developed a good heart, everything we do can only be the cause of the lower realms. Our education is solely for this purpose. We go to kindergarten, primary school, high school and then college and university just to create the causes of the lower realms. I don't think I have ever put it this way before.

Burn like a bonfire in whatever you do

Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.

When Arthur Ashe plays tennis, his purpose each day is to play the game in a way he has never played it before. It may be a backhand he uses, one that he may never have used before in that circumstance. His play is a fresh integration of his world at the instant of action. A really great scientist has the whole past at his disposal. At any instant he is rebuilding the world, molecule by molecule, in his subconscious. That is what you want in an athlete or a scientist.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend: such nails are then thrown into the dust or into the furnace.

There is more to living than not dying .

Why are you always trying to get yourself killed?" "It's my job." "It's a hazard of your job. At least for most Shadowhunters. For you it seems to be the purpose.

Sebastian never does anything just for fun." Jace took Clary's hand and pulled her toward him. "But I do.

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)

I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.

Why are you here?" "'Here' as in your bedroom, or 'here' as in the great, spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet? If you're asking me whether this is all some cosmic coincidence or if there's a greater meta-ethical purpose to life, well, that's a puzzler for the ages. I mean, modern-day reductionism is clearly a fallacious argument, but-," -"I'm going back to bed." -"I'm here because Hodge reminded me it's your birthday.

What are you doing here anyway?" "'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet?" -Clary & Jace, pg.306-

Clary: What are you doing here, anyway? Jace: 'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet? If you're asking whether it's all just a cosmic coincidence or there's a greater metaethical purpose to life, well, that's a puzzler for the ages. I mean, simple ontological reductionism is clearly a fallacious argument, but- Clary: I'm going to bed.

Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.

I don't think she doesn't believe she can die. I think, just like you always did, she believes there are things worth dying for.