Quotes About Purpose

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

Never forget that every living thing has a particular and needed job to do in the universal Plan and Purpose.

I'm still here. I have to go on. I have to give something back, to make my time here worth something. If not, the time I've been given here would have been totally wasted. And I don't think we have a right to do that.

She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.

It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here.

I kept telling myself it was just temporary, but one day temporary becomes your whole life. You wake up, and you're not twenty or twenty-seven anymore, you're thirty-eight and you've given up all your dreams. I don't want to do that again. That's why I came here. From now on, I want things to be different, and this was the first step. I want to make decisions, not just float along letting life happen to me. I want more than that.

Coming Home. Well darling....sometimes God loves people, specially much and he feels they have done everything they had to do, and then he takes them up to Heaven with him. Does he love everybody that much? Yes, he loves everybody, but he lets some people stay here for a very long time. And other people, he takes up with him a little sooner.

sake…. What are you doing? …

Life is too long to do something you don't enjoy doing.

I had it all planned. Or, not planned exactly, but I'd planned to make plans. Plans were very much part of my plan.

I imagine a belief in God must come with a dazzling sense of purpose.

All I mean is that, hypothetically, why would we need to see anyone else? And as long as we're going out and happy, wouldn't marriage be the goal, even if it's a decade away? 'Cause if it's not, all this is pointless.

Your identity is the result of neither coincidence nor accident. You are who you are because of God's loving design. He wanted you to be you, and no one else.

What is life when living without the Lifemaker?

I would encourage people to see through rather than look at their circumstances. If you see through your circumstances to the person you want to be, then your life and it's tragedies will have purpose. If you look at your circumstances, then you will despair and give up.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

I've lived and seen enough to know how difficult it is to settle for a small life when you're destined for greatness.

I say to hell with Generals, Princes and the rest. Life is too short. I want to live, fight, love, die. Not waste my time studying.

It helps to know where you are going before you set out.

I've spent enough time on the dead. Time to return to the business of the living and those caught in-between.

You have wasted your life on hatred and revenge. What good is life if there is no joy or creative purpose? You would have been better off living five years as a human than five hundred as a monster.

You have wasted your life on hatred and revenge, Mr Crepsley said. What good is life if there is no joy or creative purpose?

You have to DO what you want to BE!