Quotes About Purpose

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.

To find meaning in the mystery of existence is life's final and fascinating challenge.

Time is not dedicated to no man, waste it with that in mind

Your governing values should be important enough to you that you will invest your time, resources, and energy in making them a fundamental part of your life.

Gaps in our lives drain the power needed to make a positive difference in the world.

You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.

A life void-of-purpose is no life at all

However, as we have shown above, this is not how the passage was intended to be read. Rather, it is a dramatic statement of the central truth that no matter what the forces of evil may throw at God's people, in the final analysis God's purpose and victory stand secure. For

If we see all of these evils as only the result of God's punitive purpose, then we develop a tragically distorted view of God. God is then seen as a kind of divine policeman, eternally hiding at the roadside to catch us exceeding the speed limit of life.

God is able to write straight with a crooked pencil and to achieve his perfect ends through the use of less than perfect instruments, without himself being tainted or hampered by their imperfection. Indeed,

It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

What is the point of living if we do not feel alive

Believing, too, that is not enough. You cannot just believe. Your belief must have a purpose.

Believing is not thinking something is true, Shireen. It is acting for the truth.

Boredom is the secret to releasing pleasure. Once something becomes so tedious that its purpose becomes secondary to its nature, then the real work can start.

Boredom sends up a flare: meaning exists here, boredom beckons, but stranded meaning. Meaning that requires rescue.

games aren't the opposite of work, but experiences that set aside the ordinary purposes of things.

Art has done many things in human history, but in the last century especially, it has primarily tried to bother and provoke us. To force us to see things differently. Art changes. Its very purpose, we might say, is to change, and to change us along with it.

All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to thier genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania ... is as priceless as genius.

Purpose of Life: Understand Who You Are Believe In Yourself.

Imagine going through years of your life with the gut feeling that none of it really matters yet, that it will start at some point in the future, and that the present doesn't really count. Does this feeling seem familiar? Have you ever told yourself that everything will ultimately fall into place once you [fill in the blank]? Who wouldn't wind up numbed to real hope and possibility after exerting so much energy for stuff that really doesn't matter?

Destinations are false goals; it is the Way Gone that matters.