Quotes About Purpose

Frederick Buechner said, "The place God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."7

la vida es eso que sucede mientras nosotros nos ocupamos de otra cosa. Y es verdad que perdemos el tiempo preocupándonos por nimiedades, que nos aturdimos y nos empecinamos tontamente, que tendemos a pensar que la auténtica vida está por llegar.

Ya no quiero pensar más en vivir para mí misma, ya no tengo el deseo ni la facultad para ello, ya no me siento para nada viva ni joven, ya no sé qué es la alegría ni el placer.

La literatura, como el arte en general, es la demostración de que la vida no basta.»

sin pensar en que nuestra existencia tiene un fin.

What I do shows me what I am seeking.

La literatura, como el arte en general, es la demostración de que la vida no basta.» No basta, no. Por eso estoy redactando este libro. Por eso lo estás leyendo.

Ya lo señaló la formidable (y depresiva) Clarice Lispector: «La vocación es diferente del talento. Se puede tener vocación y no tener talento. Es decir, se puede ser llamado sin saber cómo ir».

Agg'ié nagné 'eggins anyg nein'yié. [What I do shows me what I am seeking.] —Sulagnés, artist from the planet Gnío

Que el mundo no se rige por la necesidad, sino por el azar. Es ésta una sabiduría muy dolorosa, desde luego, porque supone admitir el sinsentido de la existencia. Bajo este punto de vista, todo, desde el sufrimiento hasta la heroicidad, no es más que un ciego capricho del universo, una broma colosal de la materia.

On the contrary, she was aware only of a sort of timelessness, as though it was all part of a plan, a predestined design, conceived the day she was born. What was happening to her had been meant to happen, what was going to go on happening. Without any recognizable beginning, it did not seem possible that it could ever have an end.

Dad, if you're there, I'm sort of doing this for you. Don't let me be too useless.

MULTI SUNT VOCATI, PAUCI VERO ELECTI 'Many are called, but few are chosen

I, for one, don't think anything about it at all," responded Hiram, bluntly. "He's either a dreamer or a skeesicks. His not coming back to us looks as if he had served his purpose in getting

Behind each of those laws is the eternal purpose of God to act redemptively on behalf of his sinful human creatures. And we must be careful in every generation to guard against interpreting those laws in ways that cancel the intention behind them.

Life is not a rerun, we don't have stunt doubles or understudies, we're it. The universe doesn't happen to us, we are the universe happening. It actually matters what we do.

Now we determine each other's worth by asking, 'What do you do?' If you say 'nothing', people move away from you as if you're a corpse.

Each of us thinks somewhere inside we have a purpose. Long ago we didn't have this existentialist angst; we were hunters or gatherers.

If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim.

God He knows we need men more and more in the Game.

and with an almost audible click he felt the wheels of his being lock up anew on the world without. Things that rode meaningless on the eyeball an instant before slid into proper proportion. Roads were meant to be walked upon, houses to be lived in, cattle to be driven, fields to be tilled, and men and women to be talked to. They were all real and true—solidly

If there be good in that I wrought Thy Hand compelled it, Master, Thine – Where I have failed to meet Thy Thought I know, through Thee, the blame was mine.... The depth and dream of my desire, The bitter paths wherein I stray – Thou knowest who hast made the Fire, Thou knowest who hast made the Clay.

Interessi e piaceri immediati non possono riempire tutta la vita di un uomo. [La luce che si spense]

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it