Quotes About Purpose

Sarebbe tutto più semplice se non ti avessero inculcato questa storia del finire da qualche parte. [...] Tutte quelle storie sulla tua strada. [...] Magari invece siamo fatti per vivere in una piazza, o in un giardino pubblico, fermi lì, a far passare la vita, magari siamo un crocicchio [...]. Sono gli altri, le strade, io sono una piazza, non porto in nessun posto, io sono un posto.

Sensación maravillosa. De cuando el destino finalmente se descubre, y se convierte en un sendero inteligible, y huella inequívoca, y dirección exacta.

This amused him much more than making piles of money. Teaching. He was a man made like that.

I read aimlessly, until I learned to read selectively, with a purpose. - Malcom X

When you are part of a group, then you have a common purpose. A common goal. Your resolve is increased and you can do marvelous, marvelous things together that would not be possible if you were left to your own devices. It's okay to think Rambo is great. But Rambo with a dozen other Rambos can accomplish tremendous things.

It is our mission to forestall our duties

Resolution. Musicians know all about that, don't they? Pieces of music seek resolution, have to end on a particular note, or it sounds all wrong. The same applies to our lives. It's exactly the same.

it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.

We need a person whom we can make our little god on this earth, as the old Kgatla saying had it. Whether it was a spouse, or a child, or a parent, or anybody else for that matter, there must be somebody who gives our lives purpose.

There were plenty of people who did not really believe in God, but who wanted to believe in him, and said that they did. Some people said that these people were foolish, that they were hypocritical, but Mma Ramotswe was not so sure about that. If something, or somebody, could help you to get through life, to lead a life that was good and purposeful, did it matter all that much if that thing or that person did not exist? She thought it did not—not in the slightest bit. BY

because it is possible to change the world, if one is determined enough, and if one sees with sufficient clarity just what it is that has to be changed.

we live out our years as best we can, not knowing their number, not really knowing, in the case of most of us, why we do what we do and how we came to be where we are; thinking we know it, but suspecting that we do not really know.

All of us, Mma Ramotswe thought, wanted something, even if we were unable to tell anybody exactly what it was that we wanted.

We should all busy ourselves in being who we are

Perhaps there was no real point to our existence–or none that we could discern–and that meant that the real question that had to be asked was this: How can I make my life bearable? We are here whether we like it or not, and by and large we seem to have a need to continue. In that case, the real question to be addressed is: How are we going to make the experience of being here as fulfilling, as good as possible? That

On the wall of this yard there was the wording, painted in high letters: Reliable Autos. We get you there. Get you where? asked Fanwell. Chobie smiled. Where you want to get. That's where everybody's heading, after all. To where they want to get.

We do need somebody else in this life, thought Mma Ramotswe; we need a person whom we can make our little god on this earth, as the old Kgatla saying had it. Whether it was a spouse, or a child, or a parent, or anybody else for that matter, there must be somebody who gives our lives purpose.

Perhaps there was no real point to our existence–or none that we could discern–and that meant that the real question that had to be asked was this: How can I make my life bearable? We are here whether we like it or not, and by and large we seem to have a need to continue. In that case, the real question to be addressed is: How are we going to make the experience of being here as fulfilling, as good as possible?

not all those whose work amounts to something believe that what they do is good enough, or even worth doing.

Always and everywhere one vision, One customary, single mission, One customary, single grief. Not cooling distance's relief...

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

The problem with most people," Dad said once, not necessarily implying that I counted as most people, but not discounting the possibility either, "is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live.

You can't insist on a life. A life insists on you.

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?