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Quotes About Purpose

I would be more," I said. "I would be all.
~ Madeline Miller
I would like you to teach me." Chiron's stern face softened. "That is why you have been sent here. So that I may teach you what I know.
~ Madeline Miller
He thought and felt and acted, and all these things made a straight line.
~ Madeline Miller
The gray-eyed maiden has ever been kind to me," Odysseus said, almost apologetically. "She knows why I am here; she blesses and guards my purpose.
~ Madeline Miller
No wonder I have been so slow, I thought. All this while, I have been a weaver without wool, a shop without the sea. Yet now look where I sail.
~ Madeline Miller
For a hundred generations, I had walked the world drowsy and dull, idle and at my ease. I left no prints, I did no deeds. Even those who had loved me a little did not care to stay. Then I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow. I would have done that toil a thousand times to keep such power in my hands.
~ Madeline Miller
Puoi usare una spada come un bastone da passeggio, tuttavia ciò non cambia la sua natura.
~ Madeline Miller
Swear it. Why me? Because you're the reason.
~ Madeline Miller
Und wie lautete dieser Gedanke? Dass mein ganzes Leben bisher aus trüben und tiefen Wassern bestanden hatte, aber dass ich nicht Teil dieser dunklen Fluten war. Ich war ein Geschöpf, das darin lebte.
~ Madeline Miller
Next time you're going to defy the gods, do it for a better reason.
~ Madeline Miller
What about me?" I asked. Chiron's dark eyes moved to rest on mine. "You will never gain fame from your fighting. Is this surprising to you?
~ Madeline Miller
All this while I have been a weaver without wool, a ship without the sea. Yet now look where I sail.
~ Madeline Miller
Now was the time to get everything back on track, to figure out who I was and what I wanted to do with the rest of my life before I got all distracted by a soul mate with a bod for sin.
~ Unknown
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
~ Mae West
You only live once—but if you work it right, once is enough. —JOE E. LEWIS
~ Mae West
Tu vivi solo una volta, ma se lo fai bene, una volta è abbastanza.
~ Mae West
And so I recognized that my sojourn into open-heart territory was ultimately an open heart journey in another sense, a spiritual journey of awakening—to the reality that I am here in this life with a purpose, and have been from the day I was born.
~ Unknown
Agnes cannot see the point of sweeping the floor. It just gets dirty again. Cooking food seems similarly pointless. She cooks it, they eat it and then, later on, they eat more.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
She doesn't like sitting about, no matter what is wrong in life. It does you good to have something ahead of you, regardless how small.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
We highly recommend that you write out an Intent Statement and develop the ability to act congruently with that intent, even under pressure. A good exercise for clarifying intent is provided in Appendix Two.
~ Unknown
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Expansion of happiness is the purpose of creation.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The purpose of human life is to expand love.
~ Unknown
Almost anything you do is insignificant, But it is very important that you do it.
~ Unknown