Quotes About Purpose

The purpose of Sufism is not to be what people imagine it should be –but to help in the attainment of the real destiny of man.

El propósito del Sufismo no es ser lo que la gente imagina que debería ser, sino ayudar en la consecución del verdadero destino del hombre.

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

It is very important what not to do.

Solo lo que da sentido a nuestra muerte, le da sentido a nuestra vida

Vengo, mas no sé de dónde. Soy, mas no sé quién. Moriré, mas no sé cuándo. Camino, mas no sé hacia donde. Me sorprende que esté contento y ría.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

Up to his twenty-sixth year the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.

De qué te sirve ganar el mundo, si al final pierdes tu alma?

The phenomenon of music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the co-ordination between man [sic] and time." Igor Stravinsky, quoted in DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465, Ch. 3. from Igor Stravinsky' Autobiography (1962). New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., p. 54.

The purpose of life is to be restored back to Love, moment to moment. To fulfill this purpose, the individual must acknowledge that he is 100 percent responsible for creating his life the way it is. He must come to see that it is his thoughts that create his life the way it is moment to moment.The problems are not people, places, and situations but rather the thoughts of them. He must come to appreciate that there is no such thing as "out there.

Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found.

There is a serious discrepancy between what we really wants, and what we usually do to get what we think we want. What we really want is to fill the hole inside and become complete, and what we do is look for success and growth outside.

I don't believe in greatness that is bestowed as a rare gift to a few lucky ones. Rather, I think all people have greatness inside them. It is just a matter of persistence--sticking to what you have envisioned until it is reality. I have a deep conviction that everyone, including you, has been given exactly the right set of gifts to fulfill some magnificent purpose in life. Greatness must simply be chosen. And if you choose it, it will happen.

When you honestly face the fact that the time you will have in this body and this lifetime is limited, you begin to ask yourself important questions about how you will use that time. What legacy, what gift do you wish to leave behind for others? How would you like to be remembered after you have left this life?

When we stop dreaming and believing in our dream, we stop being human.

I believe these connections are not the result of chance. They are the result of long cherished hopes, choices, and creation.

Whatever path brought you here There is a reason why you came, Through you may not know it now.

Action is something you do purposefully with attention. If you really want something, you will use as much energy for it, and you will use it through action.

There is a reason you come here though you may not realize now.

There is much work to be done, and we are the ones privileged to do it.

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

When we have a clear idea of who we are and why we live, our lives become a journey. A story is created about our lives. And when the end comes, even if the story adds up to only one line, the story reaches a settled conclusion.