Quotes About Purpose

The mere adding of years to life is not living.

A good goal in life is to be intentional. We've got to force ourselves to plug into the voice that tell us we're deserving to claim that richer, fuller life.

Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.

Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving ìsingleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.

Decide what you want to do," wrote William Zinsser. "Then decide to do it. Then do it" (Zinsser, 2001, p. 285).

Apart from God, life is empty and unsatisfying. D

God's rules and expectations aren't meant to limit and frustrate us but instead to benefit us:

God creates the world and chooses a special people.

W]hat possible purpose does this lashing-out serve? Will activists be shamed into recovering their previous enthusiasm? Will Republicans stop their vicious attacks because Obama is lashing out to his left? It was pure self-indulgence; even if he feels aggrieved, he has to judge his words by their usefulness, not by his desire to vent. This isn't about him.

Is that a dream or a goal?

God did not create us to be nobodies, but to be somebodies in communion with him through participation in Jesus' glorious story.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I'm not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.

One can understand that there are more methodical arguments for revolution, but few that are more persuasive than this one: it takes leisure to be a man.

Each of us is precisely where it has always been known we would be, doing exactly what we are doing right now.

1) "Yahweh's initial design for his people is deliverance;" (2) "Yahweh's design is to form a godly community;" (3) "Yahweh's intention is that there be an on-going relationship with his people;" (4) "Yahweh's intention for his people is that they enjoy the good life."22

Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.

What really drives us to seek help is an equally frightening sensation: that of being alive, yet not really living.

An unrecorded goal is only a wish.

Everything is design. Everything!

Guy cradled his tux, stroking it, running his fingers incestuously over the satin stripe on the trousers. There is a satisfaction that only superb clothing can offer, the joy of man raising himself from the mud, vindicating evolution. Life cannot lack purpose if a tuxedo exists—this is the obvious reply to the Samuel Beckett canon.

You make a living out of what you get and make a life out of what you give...

If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to be?