Quotes About Purpose

We must learn to accept that there is no meaning to life, but this raises the question whether life is worth living at all – which he saw as the fundamental question of philosophy.

Would you risk your life for anything? If so, what would it be?

Ik denk dat mama zich een gast heeft gevoeld in het leven. Ze deed altijd alsof het haar niets aanging, het leven, alsof het niet van haar was. Alsof ze er toevallig in terecht was gekomen, zoals je een huis binnen kan lopen wanneer je je in het adres hebt vergist, en dan per ongeluk in dat huis blijft hangen. Buiten stroomt het van de regen en je hebt geen paraplu bij je.

Most of us will never do great things. But we can do small things in a great way.

As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.

We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don't end up wanting the wrong thing and get it and realize we don't want it, because by then it is too late.

Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.

One must desire something to be alive.

Now, what I want you

God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.

God's wisdom, true wisdom, is essential to living the life we were designed to live. Apart from God and his wisdom, we can spend a lot of time and energy getting lost, or worse, asking for directions from people who only pretend to know the way.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

Things do not happen, we must make them happen

It's been said thousands of times, in all faiths and philosophies. Know thyself. What may be less clear in these wise expressions is the reason we learn to know ourselves: we develop a knowledge of self so that we can give up the self and serve others.

We could have been anything we wanted, yet our free-floating individualism has taken us far from community, contribution or connection, the very things that truly give life meaning and purpose.

T)he motive consecrates the deed.

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits." With all our different interests, we definitely can't allow ourselves to get stuck in that trap: We need to design a multifaceted life big enough to accommodate our Renaissance Souls.

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!

I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.

I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan...I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses...I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.

only that "WHO-center" were obvious and accessible, and if only we could steer our course by it, knowing truly that God is in all things and all choices, seeking to draw the more life-giving outcome from all we do.