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Quotes About Purpose

Your lives are set out for you. You'll become adults, then before you're old, before you're even middle-aged, you'll start to donate your vital organs. That's what each of you was created to do.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Your lives are set out for you. You'll become adults, then before you're old, before you're even middle-aged, you'll start to donate your vital organs. That's what each of you was created to do. You're not like the actors you watch on your videos, you're not even like me. You were brought into this world for a purpose, and your futures, all of them, have been decided.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
for if we're mortal let us at least shine handsomely in God's eyes while we walk this earth! Like
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
It is surely a professional responsibility for us all to think deeply about these things so that each of us may better strive towards attaining 'dignity' for ourselves.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.
~ Kazuya Minekura
What's their purpose? I asked as a I stood. Children? No idea. It appears to be simply an inconvenient stage between birth and usefulness.
~ Kelley Armstrong
If you look closely enough, every decision has its roots in what a person wants. Scratch the surface, and you'll find a reason behind every action.
~ Kelly Eileen Hake
Q: Why must the cannon be fired? A: The cannon must be fired because that is the reason for cannons.
~ Kelly Link
Never call a meeting until the outcome is a foregone conclusion.
~ Ken Follett
If you're going to have a fight, you might as well fight for what you really want.
~ Ken Follett
He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.
~ Ken Follett
to him, money was like the toy bank notes in Monopoly: he wanted it, not for what it could buy, but because it was needed to play the game
~ Ken Follett
Perhaps we've done enough." Sylvie was shocked. Her mother had never talked this way. Isabelle noticed her reaction and said defensively: "Even God rested on the seventh day, after he made the world." "Our work isn't finished." "Perhaps it never will be, until the Last Trump.
~ Ken Follett
She wanted to do all the things he had done: to raise her children well, to make a difference to her country's politics, to love and be loved. Most of all, when she died, she wanted her children to be able to say, as she said of her father, that her life had meant something, and that the world was a better place for it.
~ Ken Follett
It was very sad that Peter should be like this, Philip thought. The man was dedicated to God's work and he had a fine mind and great strength of purpose. But he seemed to have a compelling need to feel special and be noticed by others all the time; this drove him to create scenes.
~ Ken Follett
Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing.
~ Ken Follett
She had never experienced a passion that had changed her life, unless it had been the drive to make the world a better place.
~ Ken Follett
N-are niciun rost s? pricepi ce este greÈ™it, îÈ™i spuse ea, dac? nu iei nicio m?sur?.
~ Ken Follett
We must help them, even if they have the plague. Our lives are not our own, to be protected like gold hidden under the earth. We have given ourselves to God, to use as he wishes, and he will end our lives when it suits his holy purpose.
~ Ken Follett
Un avantaj nu era util dac? nu era folosit.
~ Ken Follett
Hitler doesn't stir up hatred without a purpose.
~ Ken Follett
Dios no haría un cuchillo con papel.
~ Ken Follett
If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?
~ Ken Kesey
And like: "Why should one want to wake up dead anyway?" If the glorious birth-to-death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have . . . if our grand and exhilarating Fight of Life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway, compared to the eons of rounds before and after—then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?
~ Ken Kesey