Quotes About Purpose

We don't have to accept blandness in life. God, who is the author of creativity, is ready to make a dull life adventuresome the moment we allow his Holy Spirit to go to work inside us.

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.

Sometimes you have to jumpstart the world just to get it to be what even the world admits it should be

In certain moments I suspect life knows exactly what it's doing.

And then you notice the days are going by really fast. And they're all starting to look alike. And then you start to feel like this can't be it. This can't be all. This can't be . . . you know . . . a whole life. There has to be more.

But upset is a funny thing. It looks for places to direct itself. It's an emotion given to action, and it needs somewhere to go. Even if it has to make something up as it goes along.

Why the remarkable commitment?" "Why not?" Nathan asked. "What else have I done with my life that's remarkable?

Living long is a gift denied to many, and so it comes with a responsibility to make the most of it.

But we waste our precious time. Why? Why do we live like we're not going to die?

watching TV and playing solitaire is not a proper life. It's not living. It's killing time, and that's hardly the same. You start asking yourself too many questions when your day is reduced to these rote activities that accomplish nothing. You start to wonder

Why be given hours and days if all you want to do is make them go away again?

Are you doing what your heart says to do?

The value of your life is

It was her life. I mean, a person's life. It's all you've got. It's everything. Without it, you're . . . well, you're not. You're literally not anything.

You have a mission. Most of us only wish we did. It's the purest, most untarnished way to live a life. All the universe envies you. All the people, the animals, even the sun and the clouds and the night. If we could trade places with you, we would. So we line up at your back in admiration. We are all with you, Ella.

Even if this was the only thing I ever did in my whole life, it would be worth having a life just to do this." We

at a time, to help us get up and out of the house in the morning.

I had all these hours that added up to all these days, and I look back and it seems my goal was mostly to make them go away. But that's not a proper life. That's not really living.

Seems all my life I had to make choices between what I considered wasting money and what I now see was wasting my life. If it keeps you from wasting your life, it can't very well be a waste, now can it?

What I'm saying," he said, rising to a bit more anger now, his cheeks flushing slightly, "is that I'd like to know what good my life is to me." "The value of your life is your own choosing," Nathan said.

All men should strive to learn before they die What they are running from, and to, and why. —Thurber

Not sure why happiness should ever seem

I shall die, but . . . that is all that I shall do for Death.

I had all these hours that added up to all these days, and I look back and it seems my goal was mostly to make them go away. But that's not a proper life. That's not really living. Why didn't I take up oil painting, or learn to play the flute or something?