Quotes About Purpose

It doesn't matter, Cat. Really. I wouldn't have even entered the science fair this year if Mr. Fizer didn't require it." "But you knew that's the only thing his class was about - that's the whole point of it. WHy did you even take it in the first place?" Matt brought his lips against my ear. "Because I knew you'd be in there.

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I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

He's spent all his life in good-natured rebellion against the tyranny of the unimportant.

But a living is not a life.

If you don't decide what you will do with the rest of your life, someone else will decide it for you.

What you are born to be, you will be, whether it be priest or sailor. So step up and be it. Let them do nothing to you. Be the one who shapes yourself. Be who you are, and eventually all will have to recognize who you are, whether they are willing to admit it or not.

He smiled, and reminded me that no man could make time, but only use that which he was given wisely.

Fishing and ear scratching. The two reasons men were given hands.

So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn't choose at all. You simply stopped wandering one day

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world?

If all I had ever done was to be born and discovered, I would have left a mark across all the land for all time. I grew up fatherless and motherless in a court where all recognized me as a catalyst. And a catalyst I become.

I passed that day in pleasure, which is to say, in the sort of work I wanted to do rather than the work that I thought I ought to be doing.

I don't need to be a hero, Fool. I'd settle for feeling that what I did every day had significance to someone besides myself." "p. 144 Fitz to the Fool

A man has to have a purpose in life. I know this now, but it took me the first score years of my life to learn it. In that I scarcely think myself unique.

Here we do not believe in wasting time simply for the purpose of impressing others.

What you are born to be, you will be, whether it be priest or sailor. So step up and be it. Let them do nothing to you. Be the one who shapes yourself.

Be now what you must be to succeed at the end of your journey, and when the end comes, you will find it is just another beginning.' Althea

Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

I floated. I had been part of something immense, but now I was torn loose. Broken away from the great purpose that had used me as a conduit. Useless. Again.

He is not my lover. He is far more than that to me, far more precious. I am the White Prophet and he is my Catalyst, and we are come here to change the course of time. I am here to see that Icefyre lives.

I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.

And that is what you would truly wish, little one? To stop being yourself, before you have even completed yourself? There is so much more you could grow to be.