Quotes About Purpose

Unless people have a vision of something beyond the bounds of their own natures, they cannot transcend their self-interest.

Dans cette vie qui vous apparaît quelquefois comme un grand terrain vague sans poteau indicateur, au milieu de toutes les lignes de fuite et les horizons perdus, on aimerait trouver des points de repère, dresser une sorte de cadastre pour n'avoir plus l'impression de naviguer au hasard. Alors, on tisse des liens, on essaye de rendre plus stables des rencontres hasardeuses.

Purposes are threads of continuity that we weave into the long-term view of our lives. Goals come and go, but purposes survive because they are long-term, they pertain to the why we exist part of our lives. They relate to how we perceive the theory of our lives.

The path to significance is bigger than the individual.

The first step to knowing God's plan for our lives is the commitment to see ourselves as we really are.

Not everyone has to be the Chosen One. Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most people just have to live their lives the best they can, doing things that are great for them , having great friends, trying to make their lives better, loving people properly. All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway.

He wanted something, he realizes now. Wanted an answer other than the ones he'd been given. Wanted to find out this whole world had some purpose, some particular purpose. For him.

Now that I know there's more? I want to have more. If there really is more to life, I want to live all of it. And why shouldn't all of us? Don't we deserve that?

I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to live long enough so I can really live.

Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.

Not everyone has to be the Chosen One. Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most people just have to live their lives the best they can, doing the things that are great for them, having great friends, trying to make their lives better, loving people properly. All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway.

Tu vida no la escribes con palabras. La escribes con acciones. Lo que piensas no es importante. Lo único que importa es lo que haces.

You are the one who called me, Conor O'Malley, it said, looking at him seriously. You are the one with the answers to these questions.

The purpose of a volcano is to die,' she says. 'Is this not what you strive for?' 'The purpose of a volcano is to die, my lady,' says the volcano, 'but as angrily as possible.

La vida no la escribes con palabras, la escribes con acciones

Not everyone has to be the chosen one. Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most people just have to live their lives the best they can, doing the things that are great from them, having great friends, trying to make their lives better, loving people probably. All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyways.

You have let your devil get away from you." He looked genuinely confused. "To what other purpose is a devil?

He's uncertain what's going to happen next. But he is certain that that's actually the point. If this is all a story, then that's what the story means. If it isn't a story, then the exact same is true.

Du schreibst die Geschichte deines Lebens nicht mit Worten, sagte das Monster. Du schreibst sie mit Taten. Es ist nicht wichtig, was du denkst. Wichtig ist nur, was du tust.

Life equals running and when we stop running, maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.

Roads is never the fastest way to get nowhere," the woman says. "Don't ye know that?

La vita non si scrive con le parole, disse il mostro. Si scrive con le azioni. Quello che si pensa non conta. La sola cosa importante è ciò che si fa.

You do not write your life with words... You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

I watched him, warily. "You have let your devil get away from you." He looked genuinely confused. "To what other purpose is a devil?