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Quotes About Purpose

Why, after all, did she do these things? Why seek pinnacles and stand drenched in fire? Might it consume her anyhow! Burn her to cinders!
~ Virginia Woolf
Only human beings—what did THEY want?
~ Virginia Woolf
Oare de ce tr?im? De ce ne d?m atîta silin?? ca rasa uman? s? mearg? înainte? E un lucru atît de dezirabil? Sîntem atît de atr?g?tori ca specie?
~ Virginia Woolf
kardjának élét az élet felé fordítva...
~ Virginia Woolf
I reach my object and say, Wander no more. All else is trial and make-believe.
~ Virginia Woolf
But if there are no stories, what end can there be, or what beginning?
~ Virginia Woolf
All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.
~ Vivekananda
Man is free only when he is doing what the deepest self likes, and knowing what the deepest self likes, ah! that takes some diving.
~ Vivian Gornick
wszystko, co budzi zachwyt wywo?any wiecznym zbli?aniem si? do celu, czeka zag?ada.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book....
~ Vladimir Nabokov
One Cincinnatus was counting, but the other Cincinnatus had already stopped heeding the sound of the unnecessary count which was fading away in the distance; and, with a clarity he had never experienced before – at first almost painful, so suddenly did it come, but then suffusing him with joy, he reflected: why am I here? Why am I lying like this? And, having asked himself these simple questions, he answered them by getting up and looking around.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Winning a soul for Jesus. Now there was a unique incentive for a date.
~ Vonette Bright
The key to tipping point leadership is concentration, not diffusion
~ W. Chan Kim
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this — with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need — this life is hell.
~ W. E. B. Dubois
The focused mind only picks up on those aspects of a situation that are needed to accomplish the task at hand.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind— And I see that my own hands can make The world that's in my mind. Then let us hurry, comrades, The road to find.
~ Langston Hughes
And so it was And is with you: The seed, the flower, The root, the tree, The dream, the you.
~ Langston Hughes
So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.
~ Langston Hughes
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
~ Lao Tzu
Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.
~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Everything makes sense when I'm with you, Tess. My life makes sense, after so many years of running scared in the dark. You are the light, the reason I live. I'm bonded to you deep, woman. For me, there will never be another.
~ Lara Adrian
Todo tiene sentido cuando estoy contigo, Tess. Mi vida tiene sentido, después de tantos años de estar huyendo asustado en la oscuridad. Tú eres la luz, mi razón de vivir. Estoy profundamente unido a ti. Para mí, nunca habrá nadie más.
~ Lara Adrian
I have to do something purposeful with this new life – for myself as much as I want to show my people that I'm not the awful person they believe me to be. I need to prove that I have honor, that I'm worth something." "You don't have to prove a damn thing to anyone, Sia. You are all of those things already.
~ Lara Adrian
God doesn't call the qualified. He qualifies those he calls." All
~ Larkin Spivey