Quotes About Purpose

And what makes people work is an idea worth working for, along with a clear understanding of what needs to be done.

Once you recognize that the purpose of your life is not to serve your business, but that the primary purpose of your business is to serve your life, you can then go to work on your business, rather than in it, with a full understanding of why it is absolutely necessary for you to do so.

All you need to do is begin living your life as if it were important. All you need to do is take your life seriously. To create it intentionally. To actively make your life into the life you wish it to be.

JESUS MAY CALL YOU TO CHANGE CAREERS AND BECOME A MISSIONARY . . . BUT IN THE MEANTIME YOU ANSWER HIS CALL BY DILIGENTLY DOING WHATEVER IT IS YOU DO.

Do what you enjoy doing, do what you're good at doing, and do what the world needs doing.

We learn what it means to be human from Scripture's opening act of creation and what it means to be Christian from its closing act of redemption. If redemption restores creation, then the point of being a Christian is to restore our humanity.

We must love God more than the world, yet if we truly love God, we will also love the world, on his behalf. God matters more than the world, but because he loves it, the world now matters.

EVERYTHING COUNTS, BUT SOME THINGS COUNT MORE. THEY JUST DO. I want my children to flourish in every way. I hope they read broadly, eat well, exercise, and get along with others. But most of all, I pray that they love Jesus. Everything counts, but some things count more. They just do. If God is the source of all value, then everything matters, and those activities that focus most on him matter most of all.

And that's a problem. This excellent emphasis on the higher purpose of heaven often stifles the simple pleasures of earth.

As you grasp for the next rung, remember that ultimately it doesn't matter if you rise or fall. The only thing that was ever meant to satisfy you is God.

If redemption restores creation, then creation counts for more than I had ever suspected.

So long as you're facing in the right direction, every step you take is the right step.

In Dante's Limbo, the Ignavi are always waiting. Their crime in life was that they preferred to wait until everything was decided rather than commit themselves to a cause when its prospects were uncertain, and now they are condemned to wait forever in the vestibule of hell. Anyone can jump on a bandwagon. The heroes are those who got involved long before the bandwagon arrived. You have to find a cause and commit yourself fully. That's the first step in giving meaning to your life.

There was no audience, no one to perform for. There was no need to define myself. I became irrelevant.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." —Leonardo da Vinci

For what purpose have you prayed?" "For thanks. If I must die, at least I have lived. If my companions have perished, at least I have known them. If the world is cruel, at least I have tasted kindness. I had to cross to the far side of the sky to taste it but, as you say, the world is full of miracles.

It takes more than knowing how to point the ship to be a captain," he said with more than a touch of black choler. "It takes knowing where and why to point it.

Her bir ?eyin varl???n? sürdürmede kulland??? çaba, esas?nda o ?eyin bizatihi özünden ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir.

Çocuklar gibi kendinizi e?lendirmek ya da h?rsl?lar gibi ya?ama dair talimat bulma amac?yla okumay?n. Hay?r, ya?amak için okuyun." - Flaubert

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Use it Well

Michael Gates Gill

Here's to creating a life you love

Crystal and Starbucks had saved my life. Saved me from my pursuit of empty symbols, but also my anxiety about a fear-filled superficial life that hadn't been, in the end, helpful or even enjoyable for me