Quotes About Purpose

For that is to be my purpose here, you see, to teach rhetoric to you children: I, who was never a teacher but who liked to converse with my friends and seek out the nature of things." "They have their own imagination of who you are, but you are not that," Kebes said. "Now that's true," Sokrates said. "And perhaps what I shall teach is not what they expect me to teach.

Longe dos outros, deixado num extremo, no canto mais escuro e esquerdo do telheiro, Sete-de-Ouros estava. Só e sério. Sem desperdício, sem desnorteio, cumpridor de obrigação, aproveitava para encher, mais um trecho, a infinda linguiça da vida.

that proposal: Purpose + Passion + Action = Peace of Mind.

Continually setting goals and striving to achieve them is what makes life worthwhile!

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?

Everything's got a purpose, really - you just have to look for it. Cats are good at keeping old dogs alive. Loss helps you reach for gain. Death helps you celebrate life. War helps you work for peace. A flood makes you glad you're still standing. And a tall boy can stop the wind so a candle of hope can burn bright.

Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through.

The sad heart needs work to do.

Sometimes being hopeful needs to be a very deliberate act.

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

How can rape, murder, war, and illness be loving acts? [...] all events happen for the greater good, that nothing is accidental or without the capacity to spur our evolution as loving co-creators with God.

Our life purpose has both a general and a specific aspect. The first has nothing to do with our work in the world and everything to do with learning how to give and receive love.

Today, as you move through your activities, be aware of the energy of your guardian angel. Whenever there is something of particular import that I am supposed to pay attention to, something that will help me unfold the tent of my life purpose, I feel a strong, loving presence on my left side that broadcasts the message "Listen, love, serve.

Once we have lightened the hold of the ego over us, the intention to fulfill our life's purpose becomes less a matter of personal identity and more a strong commitment to make the world a better place.

Simply being active is not life.

A world without a sense of direction, a people without a conscious commitment to reason and rightness, to quality of life and character of purpose, shape both the culture of the nation and the ongoing dedication to life by the souls that guide it. Only then can we know if what we leave behind can possibly spur commitment to creation rather than commitment to the detritus of our so-called profit-making.

In the monastic mind, work is not for profit. In the monastic mentality work is for giving, not just for gaining. In monastic spirituality, other people have a claim on what we do. Work is not a private enterprise. Work is not to enable me to get ahead; the purpose of work is to enable me to get more human and to make my world more just.

Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us.

Making each day a mini lifetime - to achieve something and to enjoy something.

life is the vessel we have been given in order to find out what life is really meant to be about.

Bloom where you are planted,' the poster reads. But the poster does not tell the whole story. ' plant yourself where you know you can bloom' may well be the poster we all need to see. Or better yet, "Work the arid soil however long it takes until something that fulfills the rest of you finally makes the desert in you bloom.

God's will for us is what's left over when we have done everything we can possibly do to get out of doing what we're doing rigth now.

We should employ our passions in the service of life," Sir Richard Steele wrote, "not spend life in the service of our passions.

Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for justice... and settling for revenge.