Quotes About Purpose

Corro porque puedo, porque debo. Porque quiero ver hasta dónde puedo llegar antes de tener que parar.

Why must we die when everything within us was born to live?

What was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?

He loved her very much. She inspired his work. He used to say, 'There is no meaning but what we assign to life, and she is my meaning.

I saw things in that war that a man shouldn't ever have see. Things that make you forget we're human and not just a bunch of beasts crawling out of the sludge somewhere. And the damnedest part of it all is, I couldn't for the life of me remember what we were fighting for in the first place.

Octavia might've believed that it was the Devil's business, not the Lord's, but it seemed to Memphis that if there was a God, it would be downright cruel of him to bestow people with certain talents and then expect them not to use those talents. People had to be who they were.

But what was the point of living so quietly... you made no noise at all

Write like it matters, and it will.

Why are you here?" Marian's

Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should. (Ps. 90:12 TLB).

Single women can choose to serve others as well; we don't have to be married before we can give to others.

God has stamped "lifegiver" on all women, regardless of the role we play.

Who you are is not a biological accident. What you are is not a circumstantial accident. God planned both for you.5

Too often in our lives, accomplishment and doing overshadow growth and becoming. We frantically scurry around, trying to paint the picture with our activities, but our being must be settled before our doing. George MacDonald said it well: "He thought to gain a thing by a doing, when the very thing desired was a being."8

No one can fulfill your purpose but you. And God's plan for you and His plan for me embrace far more than the events or circumstances that happen to us. They also embrace what God wants us to be and do and what He desires to do in and through us.

God created our inmost being and fashioned us in our mother's womb so that we might be equipped to fulfill the plan that He set out for us even before we were born. Who you are is not a biological accident. What you are is not a circumstantial accident. God planned both for you.

I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design.

Ella's focus was eternal, and her focus led to an internal contentment.

God wants each of us to praise Him for His workmanship in creating us.

I didn't stop to think about how my normal had never been so great in the first place. And I was a mess. I'd been holding my secrets inside for so long, I had lost all sense of perspective. If we can do what we're meant to do, I think we can make them stop.

tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.

An accident of birth had signed her death warrant. He could mark her name off his to-do list.

Even dumb objects have their destiny. Rarely given a second thought, they perform their unconsidered duty day by day until their moment arrives and everything seems to hang on their location.

Once you permit individuals to maneuver in secret, unasked, and for their own purposes, there is chaos.