Quotes About Purpose

A goose instinctively heads south in a V-formation in a V formed of other geese instinctively heading south. It doesn't check out the beach and experiment with a sandpiper lifestyle. It does what it's designed to do.

They had something, that generation, he thought. They didn't doubt themselves. They knew what life was, and where they belonged in it. Not like us.

If you don't know what to do with the rest of your life, make your bed. If you're going to be a couch potato, at least fluff the pillows. If you can't afford pearls, red nail polish is your best accessory. If you don't have time to do your nails, smile and stand up straight.

She had lived what so many of us had talked about.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

What is he collecting them for?

It is no use wasting our time,

We need to change our idea of what 'work' is. Work is not what creates value for an employer. It's what creates a society. It's what takes up your time.

P)ulling at your heart on purpose is a compulsion as particular and disconcerting as pressing on a healing bruise.

I feel like a tableau at a roadside shrine. But I'm not sure what the shrine is for. I'm a roadside phenomenon. I am death to community. I am missing the point.

Concentrate on why you're here, I tell myself. You have a hawk to fly. Ever since my father died I'd had these bouts of derealisation, strange episodes where the world became unrecognisable.

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. —REINHOLD NIEBUHR

She wants to see good hearts and good brains put to proper use, but I'm not convinced that everybody ought to live like that, or even that everybody can.

Funny to do something and then realise the reason for it afterwards.

I don't know anything about light, from where it comes, nor where it goes I only want the light to light up. . .

Before, I had asked God to right the wrongs and comfort the suffering. Now I know - really know - that God entrusts those tasks to us.

Life', Alice resolutely told her mother in 1866, 'is meant for work, and not for pleasure.