Quotes About Purpose

Did it matter that we both drank coffee at night and both happened to go to Barcelona the summer after our senior year? In the long view, was it such a revelation that we were both ticklish and that we both liked dogs more than cats? Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could truly assert itself? We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something.

You are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

i have to keep reminding myself that this is what i wanted - this is what everybody's supposed to want.

Maybe we're the pieces, What? Maybe that's it. With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. Maybe, what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking. Tikkun olam.

Elijah's problem, in Danny's mind, is that he has no sense of what it takes to make a living. Danny's problem, in Elijah's mind, is that he has no sense of what it takes to make a life.

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust

É como se, ao amar alguém, essa pessoa se tornasse sua razão. E talvez seja o inverso; talvez eu tenha me apaixonado por ela porque preciso de uma razão.

For our afternoon, I've decided to attempt to give Rhiannon the satisfaction of being fully alone. Not the lethargy of lying on the couch or the dull monotony of drifting off in math class. Not the midnight wandering in a sleeping house or the pain of being left in a room after the door has been slammed shut. This alone is not a variation of any of those. This alone is its own being. Feeling the body, but not using it to sidetrack the mind. Moving with purpose, but not in a rush.

I must dive back into the festivities. I must swim within the conversations, swim from gift to gift, wish to wish. Some people swim to get somewhere. Others swim to stay in shape, or to get faster. Right now, I'm going to swim so I won't drown.

who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be?

Only when you are challenged—and only when you challenge yourself—do you discover what truly matters.

Lo único que sé es que quiero algo auténtico. Sé que soy joven y que «auténtico» no significa «para siempre», [...] pero quiero sentir que la vida importa.

That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

is where I am destined to live.

I want to give her a good day. Just one good day. I have wandered for so long without any sense of purpose, and now this ephemeral purpose is given to me. I only have one day to give - so why can't it be a good one? (11)

it's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. and maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love

Instead of racing away from that terrible event," Alfred continued, "I think maybe it's time to start running toward something.

And I think that the ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find out early it doesn't mean anything. Which means you get to start early the work of figuring out what does mean something -- David Foster Wallace

Art for art's sake but money for Christ's sake.

Ultimately, each life is a mystery until we each solve the mystery, and that's where we are all headed whether we know it or not.

This whole story doesn't make sense! Why would God create a perfect place and then allow the Devil in it, just to trick you? Why tell you not to do something when He could have just removed the tree, and so avoided the problem completely? - Cain

I have sworn off the news because there is nothing new, and reiteration of the well-known and unfortunate serves no purpose other than as the bad narcotic of despair.

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

finding your vocation in life is discovering the place '...where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.