Quotes About Purpose

Foolish wise folk sneer at you; foolish wise folk would pull up the useless lilies, the needless roses, from the garden, would plant in their places only serviceable wholesome cabbage. But the Gardener knowing better, plants the silly short-lived flowers; foolish wise folk, asking for what purpose.

Resolutions were made for man, not man for resolutions." 

life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work. 

For a long time I've concentrated on how small I am, how little I have to offer," Vicki continued. "That's not the point. The point is how big God is and what he wants to do." Shelly

That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.

i chose not to run

we are all trying to get to the same island, whether you swim, fly, surf or skydiving. What matters is when the red light comes on. Jerry Seinfeld to Michael Richards in Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?

Early on I learned, without anyone actually telling me, that in this world it is not enough just to be. You have to be something.

If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?

And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant--how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned.

Being alive isn't the same thing as living

on the street they moved with purpose, at different speeds but in straight lines, like a thousand bullets fired at a thousand different angles from a thousand different guns. All of these people moving in the way they thought right . . .

If every event is part of the fabric of the conspiracy, then everything must have a reason, a meaning.

Here for business or pleasure, Mr. Wheeler? Redemption, Shane says.

I realized, as all survivors must, that being alive isn't the same thing as living.

But finding work worth doing and having people in your life worth doing it for…doing the best you can every day…that feels honorable to me.

Shut up he says teasingly. I know what you're thinking, and that's not why you're here with us We walk for a minute. Why am I? Sabin shrugs. Does there really have to be an answer to that? Sometimes it's just right. You fit. Jesus, kid, can't you feel it? Don't question everything. I smile. I do feel it. Belonging.

I guess I liked the idea that... well, that there might be some kind of larger meaning to life or whatever. My mother was into that. She had a nonreligious spiritual side to her, if that makes any sense. She believed in the idea of fate and destiny. An interconnectedness and purpose in life.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death

Plato says the purpose of philosophy is to teach us how to die.

Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work.

An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.

My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.