Quotes About Purpose

There is something I must do, but it is not here." "Then where is it?" "I do not know." "What is it?" "I do not know.

Doubting ended. Faith restored. What to do, how it must be done, and why; clear and unambiguous as the whisper of an archangel. Rebirth from the womb of a synthetic sleep-pod. Courtney Hall grinned.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee

You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73 good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.

You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.

El universo es infinitamente rico y complejo y suceden en él todo tipo de cosas maravillosas. Pero no deberíamos confundir los resultados con las causas e imaginar que el propósito del universo es hacer seres humanos.

What has he found who has lost God? And what has he lost who has found God?

The harsh truth that this is the only life we have should make us try and improve it for as many people as possible.

When I was in the game, I had this vision of myself

started to ask some hard questions of myself. All this death, all this pain—was there a higher purpose behind it? Was it God's way of making me feel the destruction I'd caused within someone else's family?

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

You just can't let life happen to you, you have to make life happen.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.

People are always trying to understand. There is only one way to do that. It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand.

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.

There is no purpose in hammering cold iron.

Sufism, in one definition, "is" human life.

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.

Question 3: Why should a person study Sufism? Answer: Because he was created to study it; it is his next step.

Junaid de Bagdad pasaba por la escena de un ahorcamiento público, donde un ladrón se encontraba en el patíbulo. Junaid se inclinó en dirección al criminal. Alguien le preguntó: "¿Por qué hiciste eso?" Junaid dijo: "Me estaba inclinando ante la claridad de sus intenciones. Por su objetivo, ese hombre ha dado su vida.