Quotes About Purpose

The same thing I live for are the same things I would die for.

that life was an immense wheel, turning in a set track and that his task was to bump the wheel out of that track and set it on a better one?

Tell him to turn away from death and choose life. Choose struggle and toil and pain and lovely, lovely life.

She thinks you will succeed. But whether you will know you have succeeded, or if the success will be the one you would have chosen for yourself, well, those are things no one can say now. But she knows you will succeed at whatever you are meant to do." p.613: Paragon to Brashen (about Mother)

Work, the old people say, keeps a man young. But perhaps that is something old folk say just because they know they must go on working.

He got to the point. No idle questions about me, or you, or what was going on. He had found the thing he could do and come to do it. I like that in a man. Knowing what he can do, and doing it.

My life has become too heavy with purpose. I cannot remember the last time I did something simply because I wanted to do it.

It is hard to express the completeness of two beings moving as one, for a single purpose.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the world today?

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine

No, Fitz, this is life. And no one has time not to think of such things. Each creature in the world should consider this thing, every moment of the heart's beating. Otherwise, what is the point of arising each day?

That destiny is not reserved for a few chosen ones. Each man has a destiny. Recognizing it and fulfilling it are the purpose of a man's life.

How many doesn't matter after one," Chade had said. "We know what we are. Quantity makes you neither better nor worse.

No one has the right to die uselessly

Vindeliar told me he could feel when he was on the true Path. Well, I feel mine now. It feels right, Prilkop." "So many things do when they are the things we want to do.

We've the world to save, you and I.

I'm too old to be doing this anymore." He repeated his favorite complaint. "No. You're not. You'll only be old when you try to stop doing this

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbour, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the world today?

hope lingers over us like a lullaby because we were created to experience love and to give love.

The key is for you to discover what you love to do, what you were created to do, and then do it for the people around you with love. That is the abundant life, dear girl, no matter where in the world you live." Katie

Be true to yourself. Do what you want to do. Be your own person. Make the most of your life because it's your life..." Uncle Bob to Christy

Do you see how we're drinking out of lovely, uniquely decorated china cups? Mine is different from yours, but they're both fine china. We're not drinking our tea out of Styrofoam or throwaway paper cups. It's like that with you. You're not a Styrofoam or throwaway paper girl. God made you to be a lovely, uniquely designed, fine china cup. That's how He sees you, and that's how I see you.

Because the truth is, we all die. And once we've stepped into eternity, all that will matter is if we remained faithful to the Lord through this short life on earth.

A God-thing is] when something happens in your life, and you look at it and can't explain how or why it happened, but you know there's a reason for it. You know that God is doing something in your life, and it changes you. There's no other way to explain it except to see it as a God thing.