Quotes About Purpose

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Meaningless is everything, until it gains sense in someone's life…

Därer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.

Durer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this

As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

curro?… Usté es de otra madera, y la verdá, no entiendo cómo pueda gustarle esta vida. ¿Qué cree que uno anda aquí por su puro gusto?… Cierto, ¿a qué negarlo?, a uno le cuadra el ruido; pero no sólo es eso… Siéntese, curro, siéntese para contarle. ¿Sabe por qué me levanté?… Mire, antes de la revolución tenía yo hasta mi tierra volteada para sembrar, y si no hubiera sido por el

aquel que tiene algo por qué vivir es capaz de enfrentar todos los cómos».

Seguir las pasiones sin otros puntos de referencia conduce a la tragedia vital.

Pondus meum amor meus": mi amor es mi peso, decía san Agustín, refiriéndose, no al hecho evidente de que a veces amar sea costoso, sino a que el amor que llevamos en el corazón es lo que nos mueve, lo que nos lleva a todas partes. "Eo feror, quocumque feror", allí donde voy, es él que me lleva. Pensemos, cada una y cada uno, ¿cuál es el amor que me lleva a todas partes?»[5]. Poco

Ante cualquier decisión de cierta importancia que tengamos que tomar, hemos de preguntarnos: ¿es coherente con el estilo de vida evangélico que deseo encarnar?; esta elección, ¿me acerca o me aleja de mi fin último? Porque lo decisivo es llegar a la meta, no experimentar todas las posibilidades que se le presentan a cualquier persona.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ­ and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

Some kind of philosophical mission, something that would push back, if only for a moment, against the inescapable nihilism of this place.

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

We must believe that we are gifted for something and the this thing MUST be attained.

We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing MUST be attained.

All natural birth has a purpose and a plan; who would think of tearing open the chrysalis as the butterfly is emerging? Who would break the shell to pull the chick out?

The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do. --Marie Forleo (Yes, even doing the laundry!)

Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it. Mae West

You make time for what matters most.