Quotes About Purpose

There was no way I wanted to be a pathetic dreamer like him for the rest of my life. I wanted to be the best at whatever I did. The only question was: what would that be?

The man who wants to be an angel is never in a hurry to begin.

What do I want to be when I grow up? Happy. I want to be happy. And useful, loved, loving, healthy, wise, free, strong.

Be the dot on the exclamation point of life!

It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that." As if that gives them certain rights. It's simply a whine, just no more than a whine. "I find that offensive": it has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase.

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respects, whether he chooses to be so or not.

Hope follows death. It has to, or death serves no purpose.

Death: the longest of our long-term goals.

Two-hundred forty horsepower isn't enough to move me anymore. Enough to move my body, yes, but not my soul.

Man, bitterly examined, is merely a vehicle for units of nourishing combustion...

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.

Destiny = our free will + God's free will

The place you are right now God circled on a map for you.

Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

One may as much miss the Mark, by aiming too high, as too low.

Here is God's purpose — for God, to me it seems, is a verb — not a noun, proper or improper...

We strive to be God's worthy audience.

Healing from grief is allowing the courage and purpose within you and the love someone else left you, to merge and create a new sense of being.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Man should have an intuition of this far-reaching cosmic purpose and then, if he takes care to see that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things, the difficulties of earthly existence will not destroy his peace of mind.