Quotes About Purpose

There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

Fair is whatever God wants to do.

If I don't know who I am, then how can I know what I want?

He said that everything in this world, small or large, was created for a reason. Even the smallest mosquito that bites people and makes them itch. There is wisdom behind that itch, in that it can be a substitute for a corresponding irritation in Hell. He said that every trouble we land in comes from a sin which would not be forgiven without that trouble.

Death is an inevitability, isn't it? You become more aware of that when you get to my age. I don't worry about it. I'm ready for it. When I go, I want to go doing what I do best. If I died tomorrow, I couldn't complain. It's been good.

Integrity is everything to me. I will not die ashamed. I will live on my deathbed knowing that I gave it my best shot, and everything else is meaningless to me.

Food from the platter / Water from the rain / The subject and the matter / I'm going home again / Can't sell a leaf to a tree / Nor the wind to the atmosphere / I know where I am meant to be / And I can't be satisfied here

I write storys to entertain not to be the best

I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.

As far as I could tell, people didn't do things because they were good or evil. They did things because they could not think of what else to do

I do what I do, in order to do something else.

People have done difficult things for more or less noble reasons.

when someone spoke it startled me enough that I made several involuntary noises, a phrase which here means "sounds without meaning to." Involuntary noises are my least favorite kind of noise I can make. If I'm going to sound foolish I would at least like to have done it on purpose.

As far as I could tell, people didn't do things because they were good or evil. They did things because they could not think of what else to do

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

I was stuck in the feeling that one did not--was not justified in being alive unless one was fulfilling other people's dreams, whether they were contractual dreams or the public's dreams, or fulfilling my own dreams and illusions about what I thought I was supposed to be, which, in retrospect, turned out to not be what I am.

Half of what I say is meaningless But I say it just to reach you

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

So if she was still alive after everything, what was she living for? To be terrified of life outside her front door? To hide behind a computer screen and miss out on the best gifts she'd been given?

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.

Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.