Quotes About Purpose

Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don't go around asking what her reasons are.

It doesn't mean a thing. Not a thing. Sometimes, in life, there is no meaning at all.

Wasn't there something to be said for working to live, as opposed to living to work?

Well, they don't make their music just to pass the time," says Jenny, grinning. "Got to want something to sing about it, no?

It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew.

But if there's no heaven what remains?

Trust me, the island must have water, since we need it to live. This place was set aside for us when the earth was made.

And then I woke— Then I woke up— I woke, and found that life was duty.

There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another. This conception is a potent menace to social regeneration. All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim. The means employed become, through individual habit and social practice, part and parcel of the final purpose; they influence it, modify it, and presently the aims and means become identical.

Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end

You can have anything in life that you really want, but you must be prepared to take the responsibilities that go with it. God is ready the moment you are.

Realizing God as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.

that would matter, for the

Waitress: And to drink? Artemis: Spring water. Irish, if you have it. And no ice, please. As your ice is no doubt made from tap water, which rather defeats the purpose of spring water.

Hey, if you can't remember, don't worry about it. I'm having a few memory problems myself in this place. Little things like how long I've been here, what my purpose in life is, which feet to put my shoes on. Stuff like that.

There is always a use for everything, Victor had told him. Even pain.

She'd never been able to concentrate on one thing in her entire life. Maybe that was it. Life wasn't here to distract her now.

God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else.

There is a time and place for diversion and amusements, but you should never allow them to override your true purposes.

Tell yourself what you want to be, then act your part accordingly.