Quotes About Purpose

I have worked all my life. In all that remains of my life I must work. I have no complaints against work. To work is normal.

Por qué madrugaremos tanto los viejos? ¿Será para alargar el día?

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.

and I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life

Qua Va," the boy said. "It is what a man must do.

His choice had been to stay in the deep dark water far out beyond all snares and traps and treacheries. My choice was to go there to find him beyond all people. Beyond all people in the world. Now we are joined together and have been since noon. And no one to help either one of us. Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for. I must surely remember to eat the tuna after it gets light.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life

But an army that is made up of good and bad elements cannot win a war. All must be brought to a certain level of political development; all must know why they are fighting, and its importance. All must believe in the fight they are to make and all must accept discipline. - For Whom the Bell Tolls

That's what life is about, doing as good as you can. When the times comes for them to lay you down in the long black hole, they can say one thing: 'He did as good as he could.' That's the best thing you can say for a man. Horse breaker or yard sweeper, let them say the poor boy did it good as he could.

It came from a piece of old wood that he found in the yard somewhere. That's what we all are, Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood, until we—each one of us, individually—decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better. Because we need you to be and want you to be.

It came from a piece of old wood that he found in the yard somewhere. That's what we all are, Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood, until we--each one of us, individually--decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better. Because we need you to be and want you to be. --Grant

The question Who am I? really asks, Where do I belong or fit? We get the sense of that direction -- the sense of moving toward the place where we fit, or of shaping the place toward which we are moving so that it will fit us -- from hearing how others have handled or are attempting to handle similar (but never exactly the same) situations. We learn by listening to their stories, by hearing how they came (or failed) to belong or fit.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...

Es nebiju rad?ts, lai dom?tu. Es biju rad?ts, lai ?stu.

Both Rolling Thunder and Spotted Fawn had told me about how "spiritual healing" begins with respect for the Great Spirit—the life and love that can be found in all of nature's creations. Each element of creation has its own will, its own way, and its own purpose. These ways need to be respected, not exploited, by human beings.

The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.

Who do we become when we stop allowing all the voices in our head to crowd out the one voice we must hear to come to life?

Our lives will become our greatest works of art not only when our relationships are a beautiful expression of love, acceptance, and intimacy, but when we have a deep sense of purpose that produces accomplishments that express, for us, success and significance.

Who we were created to become already exists in the mind of God. It's placed in our physical DNA and in the longings of our soul. Our lives are supposed to be a manifestation of the imagination of God, and whatever else we leave behind—the life we choose to live and the person we choose to become—is the ultimate expression of the artisan soul.

If we choose to live a small life, we do not make enough room for a big GOD.

But if you choose the way of the warrior, living a life of service, it will demand of you the best you have. You may not need to be great, but the world needs your greatness. Whatever God has placed within you that could ever be described as great was never meant for you, anyway. It's a stewardship that has been given to you. Greatness never belongs to the one who carries it; it belongs to the world that needs it.

Our citizenship is in eternity; history is our temporary residence.

Though we may create many beautiful works of art, the most important works of art to which we will ever give ourselves are the lives we live.