Quotes About Purpose

There is no wasted effort. There is no wasted effort. It will all add to the path. It will all add to the journey. Somehow. You just can't even imagine how it will. But you just need to do things fully to the best of your ability. And you go towards the thing that you love. What you love to do.

She does not exist for herself. She exists for and through her community.

If you're going to do it, do it.

Where I belong is here, because that's where we all are, fighting our hard battles for the same thing.

Should you ever decide, in those small dark hours, to hang yourself, well, that is your choice. But don't hunt for the rope until morning. By then you'll find a much better use for it.

Fac quod faciendum est,' " Jo read aloud. "Do what must be done.

You fear you will fail at the very thing you were born for. And your fear torments you...instead of shunning your fear, you must let it speak and listen carefully to what it's trying to tell you. It will give you good counsel.

By changing a life, just one life, you -can- change the world. It is the only way anyone ever has. [Anna of Cleves]

Fa quod faciendum est.

There has to be a reason things are the way they are here. If only I can find out what it is.

Should you ever decide, in those small dark hours, to hang yourself, well, that is your choice. But don't hunt for rope until morning. By then, you'll have a much better use for it.

Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.

I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

This vision tumbled over Phoebe with the force of revelation: she would stand somewhere and look back, she would live a life.

he needed to be young or nothing about him made any sense

a higher power touched our mother's head and said: Stop what you're doing! Two little girls are waiting to be born, and you need to have them right away, because the world is desperate for their brightness.

I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as a figment of the human imagination, between working in a tall green glass building on Park Avenue and collecting litter in a park. In fact, there may have been no difference at all.

Don't you know that this is the only reason we are here, to love one another, and to be loved?

Don't you know that this is the only reason we are here, to love one another, and to be loved? Why is it that what is so obvious to dogs is such a mystery to men and women?

In study after study, researchers find that if people are unclear about where they are going, they'll just default to their old patterns and habits.

i have struggled but i have worked to make my struggles meaningful and now i am set free.

This is my high calling: to live on mission as an adopted daughter of Jesus. If people around me aren't moved by my Christ or my church, then I must be doing a miserable job of representing them both.

living on mission where you've been sent will transform your faith journey.

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.