Quotes About Purpose

Dreams aren't doing. Awake and take, or sleep on and show his sacrifice means nothing to you.

go to Gurevich's residence?

sayings—he'd begin as he meant to go on.

Solas don Saol. Light for Life.

I'm done lighting out, done needing to. This is my land. It's not about the owning of it, but waking up in the morning knowing you're where you want to be, having good work to do and good people around you.

I believe a great many people are born writer or artist, and die without ever realizing it. Books go unwritten, paintings unpainted. The fortunate ones are those who discover what they were meant to do. I might have been an excellent soccer player. I might have been an excellent writer. If I'd tried to do both, I'd have been no more than mediocre. I chose not to be mediocre.

Será que o nosso caminho tem a ver com escolhas?

Nothing happens to us without a purpose, little ister. What we do because of it, what we do about it, is the key to who nd what we are.

Nothing happens to us without a purpose, little sister. What we do because of it, what we do about it, is the key to who and what we are.

Make your days count. Don't invest all your efforts in the future. You miss too much of the now.

All that's done, she thought. "All that's done," she murmured. "So why are we still here?

No point in dragging your feet once you've got your direction.

Your ignorance does you no credit." He walked onto the porch, flicked a hand at the door. It opened with a rush of wind. "Do you think power—the light, the dark—has no source? Has no history or purpose? You owe what you are to all who came before you. To their bounty and their battles, their cruelty and their compassion." He shook his head.

What was it like, she wondered, to wake up every morning knowing exactly where you belonged and where you were going?

Francis Collins put it, "Why would such a universal and uniquely human hunger exists, if it were not connected to some opportunity for fulfillment?

You may not see it now, said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.

On the other hand, if there is no God, then your life ultimately means nothing. Since there is no enduring purpose to life, there's no right or wrong way to live it. And it doesn't matter how you live or what you believe—your destiny is dust.

Simply put, that we don't know a good purpose for some evil does not mean there is no good purpose for it. There are many things we don't know. And there are many things we once did not know but now do know. So it should be expected that in the future we will discover good purposes for things for which we do not now know a good purpose.

She did not want the pleasurable and comfortable mediocrity in which she now wallowed to be the sum of her life.

As a young man he had not dared risk God's wrath by questioning His purpose. Now he did not give a damn. Fuck it. There was no Paradise and there was no Hell and if there was a God, He was worse than inscrutable. What did exist was the cold, cruel truth of a young man, dead—from cancer or a car accident or suicide or God knows what—at the obscene age of thirty-two.

The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive.

The falling flakes were random and without purpose; the snow was drunker than she was.

It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.

In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.