Quotes About Purpose

When you have passion and commitment, you don't need a complex plan. Your plan is your life is your dream.

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

facility devoted to that purpose. She would have been briefed with whatever half-truths the Southern Reach's command and control deemed useful, based on criteria Control still found arcane, even murky. She would have been subjected to conditioning to make her more receptive to hypnotic suggestion. * * *

We were meant to be focused on our purpose, and "anything personal should be left behind." Names belonged to where we had come from, not to who we were while embedded in Area X.

But I am not those people. I am just the biologist; I don't require any of this to have a deeper meaning.

If you don't know your passion, it confuses your mind, not your heart.

Wolno?? mog?a ci? oddali? od tego, czego szukasz, zamiast ci? do tego zbli?y?.

She knew where it would all lead, what it always led to in human beings—a decision about what to do. What are we going to do? Where do we go from here? How do we move forward? What is our mission now? As if purpose could solve everything, could take the outlines of what was missing and by sheer will invoke it, make it appear, bring it back to life.

You see, if the function of a tool is removed, you have Art. Very witty, don't you think?

With the tower, we knew none of these things. We could not intuit its full outline. We had no sense of its purpose. And now that we had begun to descend into it, the tower still failed to reveal any hint of these things. The psychologist might recite the measurements of the "top" of the tower, but those numbers meant nothing, had no wider context. Without context, clinging to those numbers was a form of madness.

the species that had given Area X its purpose was gone.

Accidents and acts of God don't mean a thing, unless they're followed later by acts of will.

But by then, whenever this was, the Strange Bird did not want to live, or did not know she could live, and that was the same thing in the end.

Bodies could be beacons, too, Saul knew. A lighthouse was a fixed beacon for a fixed purpose; a person was a moving one. But people still emanated light in their way, still shone across the miles as a warning, an invitation, or even just a static signal. People opened up so they became a brightness, or they went dark. They turned their light inward sometimes, so you couldn't see it, because they had no other choice.

Il faut suivre ta boussole [You must follow your compass], as we say in French. Do what feels right to you, then figure out how to earn a living at the same time.

La escatología no solo se ocupa de los acontecimientos del fin de los tiempos, también se ocupa del fin y del propósito divino para todos los acontecimientos históricos, lo cual es más importante.

Lo más importante es que hay un gran propósito detrás de la Creación y la Caída. Aprendemos que nada sucede por error; que no hay personajes irrelevantes; que hay un propósito para todo y para todos.

cuando la iglesia a sabiendas y con ese propósito va en pos de las tendencias e influencias del mundo para ayudarse a obtener la aprobación del mundo, entonces la iglesia misma se vuelve mundana.

The purpose was not to destroy the alliances and organizations that were built after World War II but to spread the responsibilities among key nations for making those alliances and organizations work. The goal was not to destroy but to adjust and modernize (p. 324).

If you don't love yourself, and if you don't love what you do, then your productivity will be somewhere between mediocre and pathetic.

If you are not ready to make a commitment at the age of twenty only because you are afraid to die then you are dead already.

Never be satisfied with inaction. Question and redefine your purpose to attain progress.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. —Henry Ford, innovating automaker

Quiero sentir que mi vida ha servido para algo más que para ocupar un espacio, respirar oxígeno, consumir productos y generar basura.