Quotes About Purpose

There's only one day at a time. "Today will die tomorrow." "Today is yours to shape. Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend, and be you today!

It is the time you have, that makes it worth making time to find the things that really makes you really feel alive.

It's your life, do what matters most to you, do what makes you feel alive and happy. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours.

Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it." " Do what you have to do, for you.

Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes.

Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes. Amen.

Whatever you do, do it with purpose. It's not something to be ashamed of. It is something to be proud of.

I want you to love... "I want you to feel... But... I want You to have the most important thing, Your Life.

I never go but where I have some great purpose to serve, returned he, either in the advancement of my own power and dominion or in thwarting my enemies.

Thus we are forced into a difficult choice: anxiety or depression. If we move forward, as our soul insists, we may be flooded with anxiety. If we do not move forward, we will suffer the depression, the pressing down of the soul's purpose. In such a difficult choice one must choose anxiety, for anxiety is at least the path of personal growth; depression is a stagnation and defeat of life.

Was a particular person a "saint" because she sacrificed her own journey in service to others; was her life as lived in fact her authentic journey, or was she driven by complexes so powerful as to render her incapable of choosing anything else?

Depth psychology understands that the goal of life is not happiness, which is only transiently possible anyhow, but meaning, which abides.

The object is not to win or lose, for that is already decided, and already irrelevant80—for us it is rather to be on the playing field, with utmost exercise of élan and investment of spirit to the end.

Since so many of us are living so much longer, may we inquire if longevity itself is the goal, or is it something else? Are our lives four times richer, more meaningful, than those who lived in ancient Greece

Who I am, who you are, is the gift.

but she herself embodies their greatest, most therapeutic gift: the message that we are here to be here , to go through it all and to retain our dignity, purpose, and values as best we can.

So, then, now you know your task: to become what the gods want, not what your parents want, not what your tribe wants, but what the gods want, and what your psyche will support if consciousness so directs.

Imagine what our story would look like if, rather than succumbing to the insistent voices of family or culture, we determined that our vocation was to be a better human.

I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

I am, a stride at a time

First you must take your degree. Set that before you as your first aim. Then, little by little, you will see your way. I mean in every sense, your way in life and in thinking.

Most people have some purpose or other in their lives. Aristotle says that the end of every being is its greatest good. We all act in view of some good.

And remember, my dear boys, that we have been sent into this world for one thing and for one thing alone: to do God's holy will and to save our immortal souls. All else is worthless. One thing alone is needful, the salvation of one's soul. What doth it profit a man to gain the whole world if he suffer the loss of his immortal soul? Ah, my dear boys, believe me there is nothing in this wretched world that can make up for such a loss.

The hour when he too would take part in the life of that world seemed drawing near and in secret he began to make ready for the great part which he felt awaited him the nature of which he only dimly apprehended.