Quotes About Purpose

I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always mattered. It doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That's what defines you.

In the end, it is not by knowledge that we make our journeys but by hope and faith: hope that our walk will be worthy of our steps and faith that we are going somewhere. And only when we come to the end of our journeys do we truly understand that every step of the way we were walking on water.

Sometimes, it's only in walking the path that we discover why we are walking at all.

if you take away everything a man lives for, then what does he live for?

Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.

All things are possible with God." "And if there is no God?" Enele turned back. "Then we're just dust and beasts, and what does it matter?

Wasted dreams, I suppose." "I don't think there's such a thing," Justin said. "Dreams have value

Tout est simple, lorsqu'on sait ce que l'on fait.

Survivor's guilt is a peculiar thing. Why would our psyche torture itself for doing what it was primarily designed for?

None of us has a death wish.

If love is our reason, we may veer off course sometimes, but we'll never be lost

It's like being dead without the commitment.

Nearly a million people take their lives each year. It's not about survival; it's about finding meaning in living. Even in our suffering

between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.' " She looked up.

I've Never Cared Much For Mondays. If I were the king of the world, I'd have Mondays removed from the calendar. Of course the problem is that Tuesday would become the new Monday, which would defeat the purpose.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.

I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves

And S. Gregory says:—"Our life is like a man in a ship; sit he, stand he, sleep he, wake he, ever he gets thitherward where the ship is driving with the force of the weather. So we, in this short time, whatsoever we do, we drive ever to our end." And our enemy

Public housing's original purpose was to give shelter not to those too poor to afford it but to those who could afford decent housing but couldn't find it because none was available.

Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

I have written this book in order to make clear, "once and for all," what Jesus' life was about, and why it should matter to us.