Quotes About Purpose

Allt det där är bara tidsfördriv i väntan på döden.

Before I die I want to count for something. Be the person I'm meant to be and have that be enough. Know what it's like to have a best friend. Matter.

The why is that none of it matters. Not school, not cheerleading, not boyfriends or friends or parties or creative writing programs or…" She waves her arms at the world. "It's all just time filler until we die." "Maybe. Maybe not. Whether it's filler or not, I'm pretty glad to be here." If there's anything I've learned, it's that you need to make the most of it.

I think there are places we can go that need to be seen. Maybe no one else will ever visit them and appreciate them or take the time to think they're important, but maybe even the smallest places mean something. And if not, maybe they can mean something to us. At the very least, by the time we leave, we know we will have seen it, this great state of ours. So come on. Let's go. Let's count for something. Let's get off that ledge.

It's all just time filler until we die.

Ama sebebi o deÄŸil. Sebebi, asl?nda hiçbir ÅŸeyin öneminin olmamas?. Ne okul, ne ponpon k?z tak?m?, ne arkadaÅŸlar, erkek arkadaÅŸlar, partiler, yarat?c? yazarl?k bölümleri, ne de.." Kollar?n? tüm dünyay? iÅŸaret edercesine iki yana açt?. "Hepsi, ölünceye kadar oyalanmam?z için uydurulmuÅŸ türlü meÅŸgaleler.

Drive anywhere and everywhere, even when there's nowhere to go. (Note: There's always somewhere to go.)

Is today a good day to die? This is something I ask myself in the morning when I wake up. In third period when I'm trying to keep my eyes open while Mr. Schroeder drones on and on. At the supper table as I'm passing the green beans. At night when I'm lying awake because my brain won't shut off due to all there is to think about. Is today the day? And if not today—when?

before i die i want to matter

Writing was what I did best, better than being a daughter, or girlfriend, or sister. Writing was me. But now writing is one of the things I can't do.

O que percebo agora é que o que importa não é o que a gente leva, mas o que a gente deixa.

I did what I felt I could do. Could I have done more? Possibly. Yes. We can always do more. It's a tough question to answer, and, ultimately, a pointless one to ask.

And maybe, just maybe, by letting go of who you think you should be, you become more of who you are meant to be." (pg. 249)

Found, I told myself. Try to get found.

The call to dreams is a call to soul.

What do you think happiness is?" she asked him. "A by-product," he answered immediately, "to being useful.

Find something true to your spirit and your soul and do it every day.

What do you think happiness is?" she asked him. "A by-product," he answered immediately, "to being useful." She looked at him. "What?" she said. "What do you mean?" He looked back at her, surprised. "Well," he said, "if you do good work and are useful, that makes you happy.

I found myself an unusual feeling: wanting to do something for solely the pure reasons that I wanted to do it. Not because I thought I ought to or because other people wanted me to do it or because it felt like the right age to be doing things or because it would lead me up the ladder.

Me tomo el vestuario en serio. ¿Por qué molestarse en usar algo que solo llevarás a medias?

Everything made sense in that moment. This was my chance to make things right with Conrad. The way I saw it, this was what I had been waiting for and I hadn't even known it. It was like the last two months I had been sleepwalking, and now here I was, finally awake. I had a goal, a purpose.

Like, why do I speak? Why did God give me a mouth if I'm just going to say dumb stuff with it?

And you've been a big help, but I think there are other things you could be focusing on that are more worthy of your time.

IT'S NO FUN WATCHING PEOPLE WOUND THEMSELVES SO THAT THEY CAN HOLE UP, NURSE THEMSELVES BACK TO HEALTH, AND REPEAT THE CYCLE. THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO.