Quotes About Purpose

She understood that she must not write merely to win fame for herself or even for the higher motive of pure pleasure in her work. She must aim, however humbly, to help her readers to higher planes of thought and endeavor. Then and only then would it be worth while.

When she came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the shrinking terror of something wholly different — something for which accustomed thought and ideal and aspiration had unfitted her. The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.

Art?k derslerimle çok daha fazla ilgileneceÄŸim, dedi Anne keyifle, çünkü bir amac?m var. Bay Allan hayatta herkesin bir amac? olmas? ve içtenlikle onun peÅŸine düÅŸmesi gerektiÄŸini söylüyor. Yaln?zca, sayg?n bir amaç olmas?na dikkat etmeliymiÅŸiz.

Os pequenos prazeres da vida, doces e excelentes em seu momento, não deveriam ser a finalidade de toda a existência. Os mandamentos divinos deveriam ser buscados e seguidos; a vida celestial deveria começar aqui na Terra.

Ah, insan?n hedeflerinin olmas? harika bir ÅŸey. Bir sürü hedefim olduÄŸu için çok mutluyum. Üstelik hedeflerin asla bir sonu yok gibi görünüyor; en iyi taraf? da bu. Bir hedefine ula??r ulaÅŸmaz, hemen daha yukar?da ???ldayan baÅŸka bir tanesini görüyorsun. Bu durum hayat? son derece ilginç k?l?yor.

What will you do with your wild & precious self?

Debo renunciar a mi fascinación por mí mismo ante el beneficio de una preocupación más compatible con la naturaleza del objetivo de Dios. No estoy yo en el centro. Sino Dios. Existo por él y no existe él por mí.

You're coming to Him not to get Him to enter your world and change things to make you happy and give your life meaning and provide you with the blessings you want. You're now entering His world wanting to bring Him glory, to become a source of joy to your Papa, willing to endure whatever suffering is required to make that happen.

Everything you were designed to experience and enjoy is found in God. Knowing God is your life and your highest joy. You either believe that or you don't. Believe it and you will experience and enjoy life, real life, eventually. Guaranteed. Disbelieve it and, at best, you will experience counterfeit life and enjoy it only for a season.

whatever `call' a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.10

All your life has been a journey to find an identity.

His purpose was to get done what needed to be done, and what needed to be done was simple, if not easy.

It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live." ~spoken by Augustus McCrae ? Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

During the day he had not trusted enough, and had worn himself out with pointless scurryings.

The coyote was moving purposely; perhaps it smelled the cooking meat too.

It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live. Augustus McCrae

Well, that's where we started for," he said. "Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don't make a damn bit of sense.

It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living," Augustus said. "I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.

On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist. Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.

work, whatever it must be, is the service of God and of the community and therefore the expression of man's dignity. - Emil Brunner, Gifford Lectures, 1948

the notion that having a job or an income of any kind should be happiness enough has become outdated.

It's not WHAT you do for a living that brings career satisfaction. It's WHO you get to be while doing what you do that does.

You have something you want to do. Something you like to do. Something you're good at. Why don't we start with that? Why don't you let that be the entire plan for now?

Most of the time a person wants something more than anything else. You can tell because at the end of the day that's what they're willing to fight for -Dan