Quotes About Purpose

The main thing I wanted was to manage.

There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

Management has never been the most important thing for me.

I have a mandate to win and that's what I want to do.

A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum.

I feel it's important to make a mark somewhere.

That's something I always say is good to do in life, is to leave our mark in this lifetime.

In a way it was worth it, she thought, except that it was such a total waste.

What made me think I wanted life to be interesting?

Estoy aquí para limpiar! -le gritó Sophie. -Entonces vaya encontrándole otro sentido a su vida. -dijo Howl.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the lenght of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

All our senses feed the brain, and if it diets mainly on cruelty and suffering, how can it remain healthy? Change that diet, on purpose, train mentally to refocus the mind, and one nourishes the brain.

All our senses feed the brain, and if it diets mainly on cruelty and suffering, how can it remain healthy? Change that diet, on purpose, train mentally to refocus the mind, and one nourishes the brain. Rabbi

Man is a messenger who forgot the message

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

I will meet the cruel and the cowardly today, she thought, liars and the envious, the uncaring and unknowing: they will be all around. But their numbers and their carelessness do not mean I have to be like them. For my own part, I know my job; my commissions comes from Those Who Are.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

Tú estás viva; pero estar viva no es lo mismo que vivir.

Què havia de fer de tota aquella llibertat?

Spirituality is not just about religion, or church attendance, or fidelity to one or other legal requirement. Spirituality is understood to be an innate wisdom of the human heart that enlivens a zest for life, a search for meaning and purpose, a love for all that is good and beautiful, a passion to create a better world, a sensitivity to the life-energy (God, if you wish) that permeates the entire cosmos.

Beach's conspicuous intelligence would take him far if only he would stir himself to choose a direction

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.1 —WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

God - it's merely shorthand for where we come from, where we're going and what it's all about

Sacrifice is the secret — you have to sacrifice things for art and it's the same with religion; and then the sacrifice turns out to be a gain." Then I got confused and I couldn't hold on to what I meant — until Miss Blossom remarked: "Nonsense, duckie — it's perfectly simple. You lose yourself in something beyond yourself and it's a lovely rest.