Quotes About Purpose

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.

Our true selves, the selves from our "times before," are waiting for us. Where to find them? In the places and activities that make us hate ourselves the least. Do you hate yourself less than usual while mountain-climbing, singing, studying, discussing lab results, visiting France? Wherever you hate yourself less is where your true self lives, where he or she feels safe to work and play.

Here on earth, discover what you are, what your existence is, and how swiftly flees your span of life from time to eternity. For after you are gone, your deeds will speak louder than when you lived.

There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral...But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright. We are...raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

When your identity is what you do, then what you do becomes hard to abandon, because it means quitting who you are.

Adults ask children, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" We don't ask, "What job do you want?" We are asking who they will be, not what they will do. This is a difference with quite a large distinction.

Porque por encima de todas las razones sociales y psicológicas que pueda encontrar a lo que viví, hay una de la cual estoy totalmente segura: esas cosas me ocurrieron para que diera cuenta de ellas. Y quizás el verdadero objetivo de mi cuerpo, mis sensaciones y mis pensamientos se conviertan en escritura, es decir, en algo inteligible y general, y que mi experiencia pase a disolverse completamente en la cabeza y en la vida de otros.

Est-ce une vie ? Oui, sans doute, cela vaut mieux que le vide.

Aucun autre projet d'écriture ne me paraît, non pas lumineux, ni nouveau, encore moins heureux, mais vital, capable de me faire vivre au-dessus du temps. Juste « profiter de la vie » est une perspective intenable, puisque chaque instant sans projet d'écriture ressemble au dernier.

Jeudi est loin, si loin, et il n'appelle jamais. Il va falloir rompre, ma vie est trop stupide. Mais pour qui est-ce que je bronze

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

To be happy, I've discovered, you've got to run toward something: meaningful work; a hopeful, inspiring vision of your future; and good relationships with the people you work with every day.

Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare.

Knowing your destination is half the journey.

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

Count that day lost whose low descending sun. Views from thy hand no worthy action done.

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

When all you've done is work toward being a professional athlete, and then you injure yourself, and you know that you're going to be out for a while, it's gut-wrenching. It almost feels like your life is over because that's all you've ever worked for.

My professional life shouldn't be an influence on whether I spend time at home. My career is my whole life's blood. It's my calling.

It is completely a God thing that I am here today because for the first 17 years of my life, I never thought I would ever do music professionally. I'd always liked what my dad did, but I never thought that I wanted to do it, just to be different.