Quotes About Purpose

Parenting, when it is pursued seriously and thoughtfully, is not only life's most important career, but its most joyful and fulfilling career.

One of the most important things I've learned is that creating a vision of what you want to be is the beginning of making it happen.

Una comunicación escrita es como un territorio extenso y desconocido que te contiene a ti, a tu lector/a, tus ideas, tu propósito y todo lo que puedas hacer. Lo primero que debes hacer como escritor/a es explorar este territorio. Tienes que conocer las leyes de la tierra antes de hollarla.

Is your day the one that you really wanted or is it the day that turned up?

But he was bent on making that ride, Brody, and if he hadn't gotten himself thrown that day, he'd have done it some other day. What I'm trying to get at here is that folks seem to come into this life with a list of things they need to get done while they're here inscribed on their souls. Old or young, when their work is done, they leave.

No!" Nellie said fiercely. "I got into it because of the money. But now --

Go on rummaging, brushing off dust, though you may find later that it was the dust you wanted.

There's always a mystery there as to why one person is more fortunate than another. All one can do is say I have been given a gift. A new gift of life. And all I can do is use that gift in the best way possible. Not selfishly for myself but for the sake of other people. And . . . I will do it not only because I've gotten that life, but for the sake of those who didn't get that life as well.

I want to find something I've wanted all along Somewhere I belong

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

Life's like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

There's more to life than just surviving ... but ... sometimes just surviving is all you get.

Familiarity with holy things can often engender blindness, and churches are, for all their merits, institutions that embody, perhaps more than most, the will to perpetuate themselves. In this process, they can easily lose sight of the purpose for which they came into being and, in so doing, frustrate the Spirit.

Liefde is niet alleen maar hartzeer of vreugde. Liefde krijgt vorm door wat wij ermee doen.

Why would affluence make him mad?" "Maybe he's mad that this is as good as it gets. Your big house. His good school. I think it's very difficult for kids these days, in a way. The country's very prosperity has become a burden, a dead end. Everything works, doesn't it? At least if you're white and middle class. So it must often seem to young people that they're not needed. In a sense, it's as if there's nothing more to do.

Is it called naiveté when you're naïve in purpose?

Per quanto ammirevole, il tuo bisogno impellente di sacrificare l'esistenza per il bene di un'altra persona poteva dipendere dal fatto che quando avevi la vita interamente nelle tue mani, non sapevi che fartene. Immolarsi a volte è un'inutile scappatoia.

Like most people who did not answer a particular calling from an early age, you placed work beside yourself; any occupation would fill up your day but not your heart.

I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt with the forlorn 'Well so-- what's next?

La ocupación sin pausa era una especie de terapia. La servicialidad agresiva disimulaba el hecho de que, en algún sentido importante, era de poca utilidad.

Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is simply to transfer the onus of purpose to the next generation; the displacements amounts to a cowardly and potentially infinite delay. Your children's answer, presumably, will be to procreate as well, and in doing so to distract themselves, to foist their own aimlessness onto their offspring.

Lisa Ann Sandell