Quotes About Purpose

Change the way you spend your time so that you will know God and walk closely with Him. An empty vessel has nothing to give. A bubbling fountain splashes everyone close to it.

And I have discovered that God had it all planned, even before I had caught on to it.

Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become...Little kids don't have to learn it. They already know.

I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you.

Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become.

Death isn't a tragedy," he continued. "Death is merely a step to something better. The tragedy is a life misspent. Yours wasn't." Misspent? It hardly seemed spent at all. "But I didn't get a chance to do anything important." "You learned to love and to forgive. That is a life well spent." The

Our gifts are not from God to us, but from God through us to the world.

It did not occur to me at that time to ask God to reveal his vision for my life. On my own, following my head rather than my heart, I chose the safe path.

The whole point is that time passes. That things fade. He is already hard to remember. Look, I used to cry because I thought I'd forget. Then I knew that was ridiculous and cried because I remembered. But the truth is that one is the same as the other. Remembering and forgetting are the same bloody thing. He is not alive any more. That's all there is to know. There is no purpose to any of it. The point is there is no point.

You are created in God's image.

What would be the purpose of having an imagination and not using it?

For them, work is a way to afford life, but not a definition of who you are.

But Mari, I just don't think I can justify a show-offish wedding. I've never been that sort of girl. I'm the 'Let's go to a third-world country and take care of orphans' kind of girl, you know?

To enjoy the journey is to give until the stretch is a sacrifice. The question always is: what is it in life that will pull you out of your seat to be brave, risk and serve?

A friend of mine once told me 'For people like us, the meaning is the search for the meaning.

An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.

Always strive to get what you want, what you need, especially if your intentions are good and nobody gets hurt in the process."

No man can avoid doing the things he was made to do when the time comes for him to do them."

No man can avoid to do what he was made to do when the time comes for him to do it.

Strive to get what you want, what you need, especially if your intentions are good and nobody gets hurt in the process."

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.

Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.

But to cast my life away just like that for nothing at all -- that I won't do.