Quotes About Purpose

You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.

Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.

Death is not too great a price for a life fully lived.

The only real problem in life is what to do next.

God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

... life falls into place only with God.

Dating should be a part of your life, not your life a part of dating. There is more to life than finding a date.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.

I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give.

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

Live to paint, don't paint to live.

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

Live life as if it were created just for you.

How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death.

Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked. "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.

We have a gift of life. What we do with that gift is dependent on the choices we make. The people who we spend time with. The things that we go out to do every day.

Activity does not necessarily mean life.

You are the author of your own life...Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well.

Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.

If you're not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn't count.

To think and to live missionally means seeing all life as a way to be engaged with the mission of God in the world.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.