Quotes About Purpose

People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

The Meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away

What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.

every woman needs to stop sometimes at the great railway station of life—on the evening of her big birthday, or the end of a big love affair, or even an ordinary afternoon—and take stock of where she is, how she got there, where she's going, and why. That's what you're doing right this very minute. You've already started. And you're already there.

My self-imposed solitude, at first a punishment I inflicted upon myself, became a kind of solace. I was apart from the city, my only reality the thoughts inside myself. Slowly, without the distractions of other companions and the need to mold and modify my ideas in their company, I came to know my own mind and the kind of purpose I might find in my work.

Car il n'y a de beauté que dans l'illusion. Et qu'on atteigne ou non le but de sa course, l'amertume a presque le même goût dans les deux cas. Les fins se valent toujours.

Don't think about what you've left behind... everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.

Todo tiene su momento, y cada cosa su tiempo bajo el cielo

The trivial preoccupations of daily life are not enough for man; wisdom too is a native hunger.

he who discards his worldly duties can justify himself only by assuming some kind of responsibility toward a much larger family." The

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."1

When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny.

The purpose of life is that you find God and receive directly from Him His all-satisfying eternal love.

Do not while away your time in idleness. A great many people occupy themselves with inconsequential activities. Ask them what they have been doing and they will usually say, "Oh, I have been busy every minute!" But they can scarcely remember what they were so busy about!

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.

Vocation at its deepest level is, This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling.

Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks--we will also find our path of authentic service in the world.