Quotes About Purpose

Such a Creator would not deliberately engineer his product to fail, any more than a manufacturer would deliberately build failure into an automobile. The fundamentalists tell us that man's chief purpose and reason for living is to "glorify God," and the humanists tell us that man's primary purpose is to "express himself fully.

God sees us as men and women in whom and through whom He can do a great work. He sees us as already serene, confident, and cheerful.

God sees us as men and women in whom and through whom He can do a great work. He sees us as already serene, confident, and cheerful. He sees us not as pathetic victims of life, but masters of the art of living; not wanting sympathy, but imparting help to others, and therefore thinking less and less of ourselves, and full, not of self-concern, but of love and laughter and a desire to serve. . .

Today I am more convinced than ever that what each of us really wants, deep down, is more life. Happiness, success, peace of mind

I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

You are born to achieve beyond potential, let your every breath counts.

ljudi nekud idu, vra?aju se, žure, vidim ih iz svoje nesabrane daljine, kao mrave, i znam da bi trebalo da se i ja priklju?im, da budem užurban, da nekud odlazim, da dolazim, da se oko ne?ega trudim, a ne da buljim ovako u tavanicu, u prazninu. Ali ne mogu. Gledam kroz prozor i nastojim da ne mislim na nerješive stvari, ali ne mogu da se oslobodim tereta što me tišti.

Nepovratno se ose?am kao besku?nik. Nije to sasvim loše, nemam obaveza ni ograni?enja, samo je pomalo prazno. Svejedno mi je kuda ?u po?i kada završim posao. Uvijek sam želio tu potpunu slobodu, a nikud ne polazim, nijednu mogu?nost ne iskoriš?ujem, niti zapravo znam kakve su. Hodamo bez cilja, tražimo se, a kad se na?emo, govorimo o ratu.

No one values their life less than a young man, and then later, the older he gets and the less reason he has for living, the more he clings to life.

Do vraga, ništa nije toliko naopako kao dobro u?injeno s ciljem, ni toliko glupo kao ?ovjek koji nešto ho?e po svome kalupu.

I to neprestano kruženje, sa jednom ta?kom na zemlji koja odre?uje smisao tom kretanju, koja ga ?ini odlaženjem i vra?anjem a ne lutanjem, zna?ilo je za njega stvarnu ili zamišljenu slobodu, što je svejedno, na kraju krajeva. - Bez te ta?ke, za koju si vezan, ne bi volio ni drugi svijet, ne bi imao kud da odeš, jer ne bi bio nigdje.

Choose your career carefully. You build your career and your career builds you.

some people are lonely for all the right reasons.

People around here didn't waste words; language was a tool, not a treat. You didn't roll it around on your tongue, revel in it.

some people are lonely for all the right reasons. After

Why did you bother creating me, he wanted to ask. Why bother giving me a brain and a realization of how miserable existence can be? Why did you invent creatures who die, and worse, who know they are going to die? What is the point of so unkind an act of creation?

And you don't always have to feel the compulsion to keep striving toward something for the sake of striving. No one will think less of you. There are no grades anymore, Greer. Sometimes I think you forget that. There are never going to be grades for the rest of your life, so you just have to do what you want to do. Forget about how it looks. Think about what it is.

We are all here, on this earth for only one go around. And everyone thinks their purpose is to just find their passion. But perhaps our purpose is to find what other people need.

But now the world, he thought, had taken them. He knew that this could suddenly happen. One day you just woke up, and there was somewhere that you needed to be.

She became who she had been meant to be

Everyone basically has one aria to sing over their entire life, and this one is hers.