Quotes About Purpose

I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge

The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind.

Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.

The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods.

The ability to be good is not the ability to do nothing. It is not negative or passive. It is the ability to do something well--to do good work for good reasons. In order to be good you have to know how--and this knowing is vast, complex, humble and humbling; it is of the mind and of the hands, of neither alone.

You see, we don't have enough sense to make these decisions. Somehow, you just get led to where you're supposed to be, if you're willing to submit.

But, my dear boy, you don't eat or drink the law, or sit in the shade of it or warm yourself by it, or wear it, or have your being in it. The law exists only to serve.

Maybe the world is waiting for you to give yourself to it. Maybe it's only then that things can work themselves out.

There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.

An education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries.

Do we, for instance, carry on our work in our nest or do we only reside and get our mail there? Is our nest a place of consumption only or is it also a place of production?

There is a use for everyone.

The life of membership with all its cumbers is traded away for the life of employment that makes itself free by forgetting you clean as a whistle when you are not of any more use.

The significance - and ultimately the quality - of the work we do is determined by our understanding of the story in which we are taking part.

In time, against conscience and even will, my grief for him began to include grief for myself. Sometimes I would get the feeling that I was going to waste. It was my life calling me to itself. It was the light that shines in darkness calling me back into time.

We see how everything—the whole world—is belittled by the idea that all creation is moving or ought to move toward an end that some body, some human body, has thought up.

CONCERNED AS HE is that the usable be put to use, that there be no waste, still there is nothing utilitarian or mechanistic about Mr. Lapp's farm—or his mind. His aim, it seems, is not that the place should be put to the fullest use, but that it should have the most abundant life.

After the games and idle flourishes of modern youth, we use them only as shipping cartons to transport our brains and our few employable muscles back and forth to work.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which to go, we have begun our journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Teaching as a purpose, as such, is difficult to prescribe or talk about because the thing it is proposing to make is usually something so vague as "understanding.