Quotes About Purpose

This was not the way of longest friend. Everything meant something to her. Everything was of use to her. Or to be made of use. To be stored away for utility at some future opportunistic date.

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

1]The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. 2]But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith. 3]We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

Think of life as a terminal illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

figuring out who you are is the whole part of the human exprience

Mothers, justifiably fearful for every pfennig and always asking, What's it for? willingly gave up their sons and parts of their sons as long as they kept on playing this march. Once the music has faded away, they'd ask softly, What for? What for?

Um das zu sehen, worauf es ankommt, muss man bleiben wollen. Unmerklich verhüllten sich alle Städte für die, die sie nur zum Durchziehen brauchen.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I will do the best I can.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

every living thing struggles to emerge from its cocoon or shell in order to be what it was meant to be.

Let's assume that we have a set number of days to indent the world with our beliefs, to find and create the beauty that only a finite existence allows for, to wrestle with the question of purpose and wrestle with our answers. (Jonathan Safran Foer, novelist)

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live....

I have no horror of death: if I thought it inevitable I think I could quietly resign myself to the prospect ... But I wish it would please God to spare me not only for Papa's and Charlotte's sakes, but because I long to do some good in the world before I leave it. I have many schemes in my head for future practice -- humble and limited indeed -- but still I should not like them all to come to nothing, and myself to have lived to so little purpose. But God's will be done.

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

It is not that the Hegartys don't know what they want, it is that they don't know HOW to want. Something about their wanting went catastrophically astray.