Quotes About Purpose

You are not what the world says you are, but what you are destined to be and what you choose to become.

Maybe things aren't meant to be forever. We live.. Then we die. And what we do in the middle, makes us who we are.

We are who we are, how we got here doesn't matter. What matters is- what do we do know

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth is irrelevant, it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.

the purpose of life now appeared to me as the pursuit not of truth but of loving-kindness, and

Uma renúncia não é sempre total desde o princípio, quando a decidimos com a nossa alma antiga e antes de que, em reação, tenha ela agido sobre nós, quer se trate da renúncia de um doente, de um monge, de um artista, de um herói.

the object of her most trivial thoughts, and the goal of her most important actions

That purpose allows the chain of spent days to slip away, holding on only to the very end of it, often of a quite different metal from the links that have vanished in the night, and in the journey which we make through life, counts as real only in the place in which we at any given moment are.

I was trapped in the present, as heroes are, or drunkards; in brief eclipse, my past had ceased to project in front of me that shadow of itself which we call our future; seeing the purpose of my life not in any past dreams coming true but in the simple bliss of the passing moment, I could see no further than that moment.

timpul meu nu-i chiar atît de pre?ios; cel care l-a f?cut, nu ni l-a vîndut.

Perhaps the solution is to have a little project every day. If there's no reason for you to get up in the morning it really doesn't matter if you are alive or dead.

Why the hell did I have them if I didn't use them? It makes no sense to wait for the right moment because it never arrives. That moment doesn't exist.

No será, Camila, que al fin y al cabo el sentido de la vida es vivirla? No creo mucho en las respuestas filosóficas: todo se resume en vivirla entera y vivirla bien.

Una vez la niña preguntó. _La vida va a ser así para siempre? _No, no - le contestó, definitiva, la madre -. Si fuera así, Dios no nos habría puesto sobre esta tierra. y si lo hizo, fue por algo. Espérate, ya sabremos sus razones.

Niet om onzentwil, maar omdat vader en moeder naar een aardig speelpopje verlangen, wordt een kind de levenstaak opgelegd.

Whereas it (modern science) does say that we are an accident in an indifferent universe, it also says that we are a rare accident and thus not pointless.

El rabino Kushner escribió en uno de sus libros: "Yo creo que no es a morir a lo que teme la gente. Algo más desconcertante y trágico que la muerte nos asusta. Tenemos miedo de no haber vivido nunca, de llegar al final de nuestros días sintiendo que nunca estuvimos realmente vivos, que nunca entendimos de lo que realmente trata la vida... No

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

I finished my 20s with a PhD in fusion energy, and I discovered I was useless.

You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.

Dios no le había llamado a hacer amigos, sino a predicar el evangelio.

Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job.

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.