Quotes About Purpose

The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

Theologians have by this time stretched their minds so as to embrace the darwinian facts, and yet to interpret them as still showing divine purpose. It used to be a question of purpose AGAINST mechanism, of one OR the other. It was as if one should say My shoes are evidently designed to fit my feet, hence it is impossible that they should have been produced by machinery.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Act as if what you do makes a difference, it does.

Vjeruj da život vrijedi živjeti, a tvoja ?e ti vjera to i dokazati.

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

Hitler had unleashed a dynamic force of incalculable proportions which had long been pent up in the German people. To what purpose, he had already made clear in the

a man who possesses the art of correct reading will… instinctively and immediately perceive everything which in his opinion is worth permanently remembering, either because it is suited to his purpose or generally worth knowing… The art of reading, as of learning, is this:… to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.*… Only this kind of reading has meaning and purpose…

the Almighty had called upon him to do in this cataclysmic world and the philosophy, the Weltanschauung, that

If we don't have time for masterpiece moments, the very reason we came to earth is being wasted on us.

Yeah, but where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?

Just her, three men, a fidgety pig and lawful intent.

Sham felt sure there was something he fervently wanted to do & to which he was excellently suited. Which made the more frustrating that he could not say what it was.

So there I am, wondering what to do, and I see you, and I see what you're carrying. And _that_ is why I came running after you. Because I do not believe in coincidence.

That," she says, "is what I am. I am what's been sent for.

If Heaven made him — earth can find some use for him.

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes

What sort of people are they, to act thus?' Yedigei asked aloud; he was deeply upset. 'Everything on earth is important to them, except death.' Yet this thought gave him no peace. 'If death is nothing to them, then it follows that life also has no value for them. What is their purpose in life? For what and how do they live?

For what purpose had all this been? In order that he could fade away in old age, like the glimmer of flame under the grey ashes?

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

Work Does Not Need You, You Need Work. Through Work, Destiny Unfolds. Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.

You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree--the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.