Quotes About Purpose

La única finalidad de la vida es crecer. La lección última es aprender a amar y a ser amados incondicionalmente.

It is very important that you do only what you love to do. You may be poor, you may go hungry, you may live in a shabby place, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days, you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do.

Facing death means facing the ultimate question of the meaning of life. If we really want to live we must have the courage to recognize that life is ultimately very short, and that everything we do counts.

What I'm telling you is, productivity is meaningless unless you know what your goal is," he says.

What is the real goal? Nobody here has even asked anything that basic.

Jonah said there was only one goal. Well, I don't see how that can be. We do a lot of things in the course of daily operations, and they're all important. Most of them anyway . . . or we wouldn't do them. What the hell, they all could be goals.

Okay, so why was the plant built in the first place? It was built to produce products. Why can't that be the goal? Jonah said it wasn't. But I don't see why it isn't the goal. We're a manufacturing company. That means we have to manufacture something, doesn't it? Isn't that the whole point, to produce products? Why else are we here?

Have you located your passion as if this was your last night on earth?

We live but a short time, at the longest. How do we make our lives mean something? If we die in glory, with our minds and our hearts fixed on achieving a great goal, we have lived a life that mattered.

Frank, saying, Who cares what happens before we're born and after we die? The question is, what do we do in the meantime?

It seems like all the time people are making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true visions when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being something they never really intended. I wonder if you can truly resurrect your own self.

Human beings. They are the ones with the most important job. They are supposed to make what they want out of what they are given.

What if you determined to fin one thing every day that you -... I know. Count your blessings. Remind yourself every night of every good thing that happened to you that day. No. I'm not talking about things that happen to you. I'm talking about purposefully doing one thing that brings you happiness every single day, in a very conscious way. .......think of it more fluidly-as a philosophy that you exercise daily. And days turn into years. And then years turn into a lifetime.

sometimes he just can't help but think that there really is a grand plan. In a way, it reminds him of square dancing, how you can see the pattern fully only by looking at it from above, by not being a part of it.

Are these real diamonds? I once asked, and she said, Why have them if they're not?

I see where all this success has led me. Now I want to see what it's kept me from.

Sometimes serendipity is just intention, unmasked.

My way of looking at it is, who cares what happens before we're born and after we die? The question that has become increasingly important to me is, what do we do in the meantime?

The mystical teachings do not erase sorrow. They say, here is your life. What will you do with it?

the invisible dangers in a normal day wrought by overactive technology, fueled by greed. Soon we'll have a whole world meeting for the purpose of saying, "Oops. What should we do?

We are meant to use what we have, whatever it is. We are meant to be less mindful of our insides, more outwardly directed.

People talk about how sad it would be to die before they've done everything they want to do or seen everything they want to see. But I think it would be worse to live life and have there be nothing left that you want to see or do.

without the stars there to remind us, whatever would we reach for?" Her

He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.