Quotes About Purpose

Perhaps all suicides are happy in the end. Perhaps it is at that moment that one feels the real point of it all, which, after you get yourself born, is to die. It is the one thing each and every one of us is programmed for, directed to, and cannot swerve away from indefinitely.

When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

I always wanted to be something, but now I see I should have been more specific.

All my life I always wanted to be someone. I see now I should have been more specific.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

The whole notion, the whole concept of individual liberty is gone. The whole concept of limited government is gone. The whole concept of the Bill of Rights, the whole concept that the purpose of the Constitution is to limit the government, not limit the people. If you're on the verge of thinking we're losing that, then to me, that's it. That's ballgame. That's nutshell.

The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of the nonessentials.

Who are we? That is the first question. It is a question almost impossible to answer. But we all agree that the busy self occupied in our daily activities is not quite the real self. We are quite sure we have lost something in the mere pursuit of living.

Again the institution of slavery is only mentioned in the Constitution of the United States two or three times, and in neither of these cases does the word "slavery" or "negro race" occur; but covert language is used each time, and for a purpose full of significance.

If you were dead, would you want your body to decompose and be eaten by worms until it laid scattered in a zillion pieces as worm dung? Or would you rather have a purpose, find meaning in death and help the generations that come after you?

I began to feel an emptiness, a hole that I needed to fill before I died.

If we are to find contentment in the midst of trial and uncertainty, we must accept our situation as being purposely allowed into our lives by a personal and loving God.

If we haven't chosen what we are living for, we're living life by default, acting out the scripts handed to us by family, other people's agendas, and the pressures of circumstances. This is not living as a woman who knows the meaning and purpose of life.

We grow up when we see our life and our role from God's perspective; when we thank God for the role He has assigned us and begin to see our cup as a gift instead of a cross; when each morning we ask, "God, how can I glorify You today in my given role?

It's easy to make a buck; it's tough to make a difference."4

Your thinking goes wrong when you aren't clear about your purpose, have unrealistic purposes, have contradictory purposes, or don't stick to your expressed purpose.

6. 2 Corinthians 5:15—"No longer live for themselves." "And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

God is so great that he can take anything and bring good from it.

The enemy knows God has a purpose and plan for your life. The enemy is the one who wants you to give up.

The enemy knows God has a purpose and plan for your life. The enemy wants you to give up.

We are called to follow God's direction for our lives as best we can.

Think of the miraculous ways God could use you if you were able to hold on to who you are in Christ.