Quotes About Purpose

Creo [...] que todo hombre debe trabajar en alguna cosa. El dinero en sí no tiene importancia ni finalidad algunas; lo importante es emplear dignamente el tiempo.

I will not torment you with vain wishes, which may seem purposely to ask for your thanks.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive;

No hay distancias cuando se tiene un motivo

Y aunque no fue demasiado feliz en este mundo, encontró en el cumplimiento de sus deberes, en sus amigos y en sus hijos motivos suficientes para amar la vida y para no abandonarla con indiferencia cuando le llegó la hora.

todo impulso del sentimiento ha de ser dirigido por la razón y en mi opinión , el esfuerzo debe de ser proporcional a lo que se pretende.

Those who chose to be idle, certainly might.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.

No, indeed, I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive;

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.

don't really like to go for a walk without a dog." "Why is that?" "A dog gives a walk a purpose." "How?" "Well, you are making someone else happy.

My role in life is to give people hope, because if you run out of hope, we may as well give up.

Without meaning, life is empty and day will follow day, month will follow month

You must work to live, not live to work.

Life, he knew, had meaning and was fully possessed only as it was remembered and reshaped.

When you think of the purpose of your existence, you think in terms of daily waking life, but you also work at your purpose in these other dream dimensions, and you are then in communication with other portions of your own entity, at work at endeavors quite as valid as those you are about in waking life.

and I hope to show you how to ask the proper questions; for in the questions you will find the answers, and in the answers you shall be yourselves; and knowing yourselves fulfill your purpose and expand the limitations of your own consciousness until you can search out the past and the present and see yourselves as you are, and know that you are more than you think you are, and fulfill those abilities which you have partially developed in past lives.

The death serves a purpose species-wise while it also serves the purposes of the individual, for no death comes unbidden.

No person dies without a reason.2 You are not taught that, however, so people do not recognize their own reasons for dying, and they are not taught to recognize their own reasons for living — because you are told that life itself is an accident in a cosmic game of chance.

I think everything has value, absolute value, a child, a house, a day's work, the sky. But nothing will save us. We were never meant to be saved. What were we meant for then? To love the whole damned world.

But now I feel that there was some aspect of fatedness about it. If I was going to do what, perhaps, I am meant to do, what I must do, there were things I had to learn.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

All my life I've wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.