Quotes About Purpose

Don't let yourself do something simply because you've started on a path and feel that you should complete it. Life is too short for that.

Why, in truth, sir, was Monte Cristo's reply, man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you? — do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?

In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God

A meno che non muoia, sarò sempre ciò che sono.

Life is more than just a bump in the road. All life is sacred.

Whoever you are, however insignificant you think you are, you are a unique manifestation of the Divine in this material world—an individualized piece of God. You are here for an important purpose.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.

Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.

And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a worldclass version of your own

If there is any difference between you and me, it may simply be that I get up every day and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day.

As always, so polite that he is at the beginning distant, and yet always determined. This is because he has uses for us all. Yukio is not only a dramatist but also a practicing stage director. For the drama of his life, he has cast us in our various roles, those demanded by the rigor of the script. Each of us has his or her purpose—or else we would not have seen him at all.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Accustomed to the habit of gathering a little of what I have heard. If [what I have written] somehow enters the door of a wise person, intent on learning, Then the fruit of my labor will have been achieved. For the smiles of the stupid and the approval of the rich, I have never yearned even in my dreams. When

Discipline without direction is drudgery.

No one coasts into Christlikeness. Any progress in godliness requires Spirit-filled effort and purpose.

But the main reason why the psalms work so well in prayer is that the very purpose God put them in his Word to us is for us to put them in our words to him.

Without a clear biblical purpose, fasting becomes an end in itself.

To be like Jesus, we must see the use of our time as a Spiritual Discipline. Having

Sixth, the Spiritual Disciplines are means, not ends. The end—that is, the purpose of practicing the Disciplines—is godliness.

Find joy in God and you will find joy in doing the work of God.

With out passion you dont have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

And if it can't be fun, what's the point?