Quotes About Purpose

What's the biggest and most important problem I can solve with my gifts and skills? Or: How do I find my consciousness, my truest self?

We are called to plant these seeds in our world: to dare to tell every living soul that they already matter, that their seemingly mundane lives are a slowly unfolding mystery, that their small choices and acts of generosity are vitally important.

What should I be doing right now?" is a question that feels more urgent than ever.

I AM AN OLD NOBODY AND I LOVE WHAT I DO

Was I being groomed for some special mission? What possible purpose could an existence like mine serve? When I wasn't drinking in crappy bars, I was home by myself reading: a life that was achingly lonely, and yet perversely designed to prevent anybody from ever getting close enough to really know me.

one of my biggest illusions was that other people were meant to assuage my anxiety by filling some lack that I was responsible for filling myself. If I wanted to give, the giving had to be "for fun and for free." The giving couldn't be out of guilt, nor because I secretly wanted to get something back, nor because I wanted the other person to respond in such a way as to satisfy my longing to be useful. Thérèse

How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives.

Do we feel God's presence because we are looking for him, or do we feel it because he is looking for us?

Life is love deciding to live our lives.

Xavier wasn't put on the earth to witness the bad htings like Jules and I were. He had been put here to notice lovely things, things that God had created and no one had any complaints about. Leaves turning red in the autumn. How when the tide goes out, the shells are left on the shore. I was put here - Jules and I were both put here - to see sadder things. We had to stand in the rain and explain why the world was a lovely place.

Happiness is about doing something good in this world," She says finally. "It comes to finding what you we're meant to do, and doing it.

We don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

Do you get to use your greatest strength every day at work?

Yes, there was a trick to it. You inherited your life, or you invented it. You figured out what you wanted life to be and then somehow or other you made it that way. Then, miracle of miracles, you liked it!

Even when I was resisting, one thing that has kept me moving forward on my soul's path has been the joy I feel while doing this work.

Sometimes we don't understand the full picture of why we need to do what we feel led to do. Our job is simply to have the courage to honor what our soul is saying.

The flow of life is great. It directs you at all times. It flows through you and with you.

Easy is nice, but it's not as good as getting to be who who are or stand up for what you believe in. Easy is nice but I wonder how often it leads to fulfilling work or partnership or being.

Having children, helping people, making art, inventing anything, leading the way, tackling the world's problems, overcoming your own. I don't know. Not much of what I value in our lives is easy. But there's not much of it I'd trade for easy either, I don't think.

Easy is nice, but it's not as good as getting to be who you are or stand up for what you believe in,' said Penn. 'Easy is nice, but I wonder how often it leads to fulfilling work or partnership or being.

Disasters make us aware that the life force within us needs tending daily. This is why we are here." – Dr. Anne Redelfs

Whatever the circumstance, there are seeds of meaning, even to our very last breath.

I was merely going to say that I hope you realise that guilt is a poor foundation for a life, without other motivations beside it.

Tonight, however, all I can think of is the juxtaposition of destiny and free will, and whether it makes no difference what I do, or all the difference in the world.