Quotes About Purpose

Of all the things I'd ever done, making Senora laugh seemed the most important. It was, I reflected, the only thing that gave my life any purpose.

Now what? Was I to be reborn over and over, forever? Could a dog have more than one purpose? How was that possible?

Unbidden, the sadness I'd felt from Senora washed through me, and I wanted to squirm up to her and lick her palms and make her happy again. Of all the things I'd ever done, making Senora laugh seemed the most important. It was, I reflected, the only thing that gave my life any purpose.

Ojalá no llorara por mi muerte. Mi propósito, toda mi vida, había consistido en amarlo y en estar con él, en hacerlo feliz. No quería provocarle ninguna clase de infelicidad ahora, así que en ese sentido pensé que era mejor que él no estuviera allí para verlo, aunque lo echaba mucho de menos y la nostalgia era tan fuerte como el dolor que sentía en la barriga.

Ahora comprendía por qué había vivido tantas veces. Tenía que aprender un montón de lecciones muy importantes para que, llegado el momento, pudiera rescatar a Ethan, pero no del lago, sino de la desesperación de su propia vida.

En ese momento lo que sentía era paz. Y estaba seguro de que mi vida, todo lo que había hecho, me había conducido hasta este preciso y justo momento. Había cumplido con mi razón de ser.

Yes, I decided. My name could be Fella. I could stay with this man. I could be his dog, do what he told me, go where he went. That was what I was supposed to do, wasn't it? Stay with a person? I was pretty sure that was true. It felt right.

Decidí que, como perro, esa era mi razón en la vida: consolar al chico siempre que él lo necesitara.

guessed that's why he'd come to this mountain, to play with me, because he didn't seem to have much else to do with his life.

All I want to do is change the world.

The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal, or desire is.

begin to determine what you really want in the distant, intermediate, and near future.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement

As Senator Robert A. Taft summed it up: "The United Nations serves a very useful purpose as a town meeting of the world ... but it is an impossible weapon against forcible aggression.

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this—with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need—this life is hell.

The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life.

It is not enough to do your best, you must know what to do, and then do your best.

She learns, after she finishes the job, that she programmed very well the specifications as delivered to her, but that they were deficient. If she had only known the purpose of the program, she could have done it right for the purpose, even though the specifications were deficient.

It is not enough to just do your best or work hard; You must know what to work on.

Put the car away; when life fails What's the good of going to Wales?

You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, as surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading, wear that same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function. How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-object look.

Knowledge may have its purposes, but guessing is always more fun than knowing.

Sin sueños no hay vida!