Quotes About Purpose

Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.

If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?

You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.

No, he said calmly, filled with purpose. he took her arms lightly in his hands and shook her. I am not giving you up. Emily looked at him, and for just a moment he could read her thoughts. Melanie use to say they were like twins, with their own secret, silent language. in that instant, Chris felt her fear and her resignation, and the knotty pain of coming up against a brick wall again and again. She glanced away, and he could breathe again. The thing is, Chris Emily said, it's not your choice.

It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.

I want to live, he said, So I have to die.

Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.

Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.

I wonder if you've got a minute. I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.

Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.

When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?

When you engage in work that you love, you are happy.

Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.

Arise and do thy sacred work.

When you're tired, sleep. Don't watch stupid tv or play games on your phone. Sleep, and then get up early, and do the stuff you hope you'll be known for after you die.

I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die, I know I lived.

If it has to be done, it must be best done.

If you can find your perfect job, create one.

You can create your ideal job.

If you are not happy with the work you do, change it

You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation.