Quotes About Purpose

We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.

In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.

You get to decide what to worship.

My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

We're here, and then we're gone, and it's not about the time we're here, but what we do with the time.

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

We're on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what's more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.

An unhappy life is a life not lived.

Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.

The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.

Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.

If I'm not pointing people to Jesus then I'm wasting my life.