Quotes About Purpose

The purpose of practicing detachment is to separate us from our present reactions to life and attach us to our aim in life.

As you assume that you are what you want to be, you do not need the assistance of another to make it so. Neither do you need the assistance of anyone to bury the old man for you. Let the dead bury the dead. Do not even look back, for no man having put his hand to the plow and then looking back is fit for the kingdom of heaven.

The acceptance of the end wills the means. And the wisest reflection could not devise more effective means than those which are willed by the acceptance of the end.

If you don't have specific goals written down for your life, you are mentally malnourished. Your mind was designed to be fed with goals just as your body was designed to be fed with food and water.

When you know what you want and when you want it, you can always find a way to make it happen.

There is always enough time to achieve what God wants you to accomplish.

Success is, instead, an intentional approach to life that ensures you are a faithful steward of your gifts and talents.

Life offers all of us a special deal indefinitely. With every choice, we receive at least one free consequence. Everything you do or fail to do counts. Every action has a consequence, even if it isn't immediate. At this moment, you are either becoming more like the person God wants you to become, or you are not! There is no neutrality.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

The Bible says this life is really like a puff of smoke. I don't want to strive and stress and be anxious over a puff of smoke when I have eternity to look forward to.

Gonna send you out One by one, If I need it sung Can you sing it loud?

how to be a fully alive human being

Hey, man, helping you is how I stay alive. Never forget that.

I'm trying to work on a children's book and a screenplay about zombies that take over a drug rehab. These writing projects usually go nowhere, but it feels like I always have to be working on something. Writing gives me a purpose. I think in some ways it has helped keep me alive. Without it I'm not sure I would ever have enough hope to get sober—to make that decision to live.

I don't know. I mean, what else is there to do? People might say I'm wasting my life, but it's all relative. If I was a lawyer, I'd go to fucking law school--but I'm not. I'm a drug addict and so what do I do? Use right? Use until the wheels fall off

George Eliot: "It is never too late to be what you might have been.

In the end you have to choose who you will become. You are your life's work. Every moment of every day makes you. Only at the end, when your story is over, do you know what you have created.

Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

He's not seeking some greater truth beyond the work. The work is the truth.

The imporant things in life never happened by accident. But even with those things that were meant to be, sometimes you had to wait awhile and then maybe give them a little nudge.

The important things in life never happened by accident. But even with those things that were meant to be, sometimes you had to wait awhile and then maybe give them a little nudge.

He writes down what he most wants to do. Then he commits to doing it. It becomes a goal, then a project to plan, with actions to take. Then it becomes an adventure to live. The point is not to become a goal setter but to live an extraordinary life. Clear goals are the path to that kind of life.

How can an intelligent person, committed to choosing a new career path, decide exactly which direction to pursue?

Many people's tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60."