Quotes About Purpose

We are only given a certain amount of time to do what we were sent here to do. You don't have to be around a long time to share the wisdom of a lifetime. You just have to use your time wisely, efficiently. There is no time to waste.

Das ›Christliche‹ ist nicht etwas jenseits des Menschlichen, sondern es will mitten im Menschlichen sein. Das ›Christliche‹ ist nicht ein Selbstzweck, sondern es besteht darin, daß der Mensch als Mensch vor Gott leben darf und soll.

Nicht die Welt aus den Angeln zu heben, sondern am gegebenen Ort das sachlich – im Blick auf die Wirklichkeit – Notwendige zu tun und dieses wirklich zu tun, kann die Aufgabe sein.

Es kommt in einer christlichen Gemeinschaft alles darauf an, daß jeder Einzelne ein unentbehrliches Glied einer Kette wird.

Alles Sehen und Erkennen der Dinge und Gesetze ohne Gott wird zur Abstraktion, zur Loslösung vom Ursprung und vom Ziel.

Ruf Gottes In der Begegnung mit Jesus Christus erfährt der Mensch den Ruf Gottes und in ihm die Berufung zum Leben in der Gemeinschaft Jesu Christi. Als Heide oder Jude, als Sklave oder Freier, als Mann oder Frau, als verheiratet oder Ehelosen trifft den Menschen der Ruf. Dort wo er gerade ist, soll er den Ruf hören und sich von ihm in Anspruch nehmen lassen.

Jesus ruft nicht zu einer neuen Religion, sondern zum Leben.

Weisheit ist etwas anderes als Wissen und Verstand und Lebenserfahrung. Weisheit ist das Geschenk, den Willen Gottes in den konkreten Aufgaben des Lebens zu erkennen.

This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got.

Thou wouldist not seek me hadst thou not found me.

Briefly stated, the true purpose of ancient philosophy was to discover a method whereby development of the rational nature could be accelerated instead of awaiting the slower processes of Nature.

If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.

Mientras dure la lucha, que durará tal vez toda mi vida, no me conviene cultivar los placeres de los sentidos, ¿te das cuenta?, porque son, de verdad, secundarios para mí. El gran placer es otro, el de saber que estoy al servicio de lo más noble, que es… bueno… todas mis ideas…

Life without meaning is empty, but meaning is something you must give your own life. It is not for anyone else to tell you what your life is about. Take time to explore and define your life's purpose.

Tal vez sea esa la vida de nosotros todos. ¡Ese eludir o perder nuestra verdadera vida encubriéndola tras una infinidad de pequeñeces con aspecto de cosas vitales!

If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

lo que los occidentales llaman "arte" es eminentemente funcional; no representa, encarna.

Early in my career, during my first few years at Oracle, I defined my success by making money and achieving power. By my early thirties, however, I realized that these superficial achievements did not provide real meaning or true happiness. Despite a list of impressive titles and a pile of material possessions, I felt that something was missing, and began to consider my place in the world and how I could make a difference.

When I first came to New York I had a theory about that -- about survivors. I thought there are people in every generation whose urge to survive is so strong they endanger everyone else. And themselves. They are attractive and vital with their secret purpose. We love and follow them. And they are the enemy.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a work to be made, and that work may well utilize much raw material we would prefer to do without.

Well, that shoots the morning." As I heard myself saying these familiar words, I was struck by their strangeness. Why would an act of charity shoot my morning? Isn't growing in love what life is all about? Yes, but the purpose of life often gets in the way of my agenda!

Henri Nouwen once told the story of a research professor who was always complaining about interruptions in his work, until one day he came to the realization that interruptions were his work.

feel that my mission is about to begin, my mission to make God loved as I love Him, to teach souls my little way.