Quotes About Purpose

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

3. What is the purpose of our creation?

To be a servant of Allah means leading one's whole life for the purpose of gaining Allah's pleasure and approval.

If you're not guided by a clear sense of purpose, you're likely to fritter away your time and energy on obtaining the most tangible, short-term signs of achievement, not what's really important to you. And

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by...religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

Once you have mastered the craft, you can use it for whatever purpose you choose.

You may not have been born into success, but you were born to succeed.

Joy serves a purpose in the life of pain that many have never accurately understood.

So our rule is not to avoid a place where there is drinking if we have a legitimate reason for being there… Go or stay away, whichever seems best. But be sure you are on solid spiritual ground before you start and that your motive in going is thoroughly good." 6

The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.

If a man through his life became like an angel he would accomplish very little; the accomplishment which is most desirable for man is to fulfill the obligations of human life.

Then again it may be said, there is a purpose above each purpose, and there is again a purpose under each purpose; and yet beyond and beneath all purposes there is no purpose. The creation is, because it is.

Es gibt zweierlei: Wissen und Sein. Es ist leicht, die Wahrheit zu wissen, aber sehr schwer, Wahrheit zu sein. Nicht im Wissen der Wahrheit erfüllt sich der Zweck des Lebens; er erfüllt sich dadurch, dass man Wahrheit ist.

He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion, call it revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal.

the seed has in it the leaf and the flower and the fruit. But the fulfillment of the purpose of that seed is that it is put in the ground, that it is watered, that a seedling springs up and is reared by the sun; it brings forth its flowers and fruits. This is the fulfillment of that seed which already contained in itself the fruit and the flower.

If the soul does not hear the call and sleeps, it is not the fault of nature, which is continually calling. Therefore, if I were to say in a few words, how to find one's purpose, I would say: by waking from sleep.

Solange ein Mensch seine Bestimmung nicht gefunden hat, gleichgültig ob er Erfolg oder Misserfolg hat, ob er glücklich oder unglücklich zu sein scheint, in Wirklichkeit lebt er nicht; denn das Leben beginnt erst in dem Augenblick, in dem ein Mensch den Sinn seines Lebens erkennt. (S. 78)

Für den Menschen ist es das größte Privileg, zu einem geeigneten Instrument für Gott zu werden, und solange er dies nicht begreift, hat er den wahren Sinn seines Lebens nicht verstanden. Die ganze Tragödie im Leben der Menschen ist ihre Unkenntnis dieser Tatsache. Von dem Moment an wo ein Mensch dies versteht, lebt er das wirkliche Leben. (S. 178)

Often, it's not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don't know how to be.

Metanarratives give meaning to individual events, tying them together in the broadest possible fashion. They help structure all of life around a pre-ordained trajectory of history.

Heather Brewer

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

we didn't always assume that just doing stuff that someone else is paying you for is of value