Quotes About Purpose

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

Liberal learning is that which underlies, that which gives purpose and direction to practical skills. It tries to distinguish between the more and the less important, between the grand and the trivial, and to concern itself rather with the center than with the periphery.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Concern should drive us into action, not into depression

she isn't mine ... . She is ultimately God's, and I'm simply a steward of her heart for a season.

My worth had nothing to do with a job or a paycheck. My worth, everyone's worth, is based on God-given value.

It's not the how, Maddy, It's the Who.

The experience of Jesus' disciples shows that when we get into the Bible's teaching about things to come, it is easier to ask the wrong question than the right one. We want to ask When? Jesus is more interested in answering Why? and What for?

One thing you must put aside in order to fulfill your destiny is conformity.

Benjamin Mays, president emeritus of Morehouse College: "Not to reach one's goals is not nearly as bad as having no goal to reach.

What you are seeking, is seeking you.

Many people are so busy just doing life, getting by day to day, that they lose touch with the deeper purpose and meaning of life itself. They wander aimlessly from day to day and, as days turn into years, on the final day of their journey here, they look back and think, "That's it? Where was the juice and sweetness and meaning of being here?" Without a vision, our life's journey can seem meaningless.

Living closer to the center of our being is the practice of a lifetime, but so, too, is skillfully living on the horizontal plane-the surface of life-where our purpose for being on the planet is uniquely expressed. Redefining moments are simply energy vortexes that draw the authentic self up (vertically) and out (horizontally) and into present moment awareness, revealing it to the light of day and the gifts it holds.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, and a Principle. You will become what your vision is. —PETER NIVIO ZARLENGA

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind Up someplace else. —YOGI BERRA

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

Acting is just a way of making a living; the family is life.