Quotes About Purpose

Every good killer needs someone to kill for. - Raith

People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

It is not how you die, but how you lived, that counts.

Everything in the Shaker community was built for service. Nothing was put there without a purpose, and there was no wasted frills. Nothing was built or done just because it was pleasing to the eye.

Don't waste your one beautiful life.

Don't waste your one beautiful life," Vivien said softly.

A meaningless life. More than anything, she had wanted to be useful. She had wanted to better herself and those around her. She had wanted to live as one with the sea in her soul. And she had wanted love. She had thought love would save her. She had hoped she would be worthy. She had dreamed of redemption. And for a time she believed she had found it all.

It is most important what we do in life, not necessarily how our deeds began.

This was not a tragedy. Dying on your couch watching TV by yourself is a tragedy. Dying while doing something you love with every part of your body is magic. I wish you magic, Edward.

Take stock of who we are and what we have and then use it for good.

She had been so fiercely alive. She had spoken honestly, and lived with an honesty that few could claim to match. She had made the most of every minute she was given. She bargained and rationed and managed the seconds. She burned up the days.

You are special. You are meant to survive, to go on and do great things.

That's easy. The same thing we all must do. Take stock of who we are, and what we have, and then use it for good.

Figure out what your gift is,Edward Adler, and then blow that shit up.

Make sure you live a meaningful life.

I want to know what to do," he hears himself say, and, like the decision to write to the co-pilot's wife, the statement is a relief. He wants to know what to do. She taps the center of his hand. "That's easy. The same thing we all must do. Take stock of who we are, and what we have, and then use it for good.

the only reason for time is so everything doesn't happen at

Dying on your couch watching TV by yourself is a tragedy. Dying while doing something you love with every part of your body is magic.

This is why we live. She and William held

Time doesn't make a full life. Living your life to the fullest makes it full.

I want a place. It has to do with the kind of person I want to be. And how I fit in to everything. I want people to listen when I open my mouth. And know I'm worth listening to." She stared at me. "That's all?" To me it was not all, it was everything.

But it is heartening to realize that God accomplishes his purposes despite our frailties, our little faith, our entrenched self-reliance.

God's goal isn't simply to fill the world with people who believe the right things. It is to fill the world with people who shine with the brilliance of Christ.

I sit watching until dusk, hypnotized. I think of the sea as continually sloshing back and forth, repetitive, but my psyche goes with the river- always loping downhill, purposeful, listening only to gravity.