Quotes About Purpose

We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.

For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.

I admire the man who exclaimed, "I have lost a day!" because he had neglected to do any good in the course of it....

You've gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less.

I just hope God does not get bored of dreaming me.

We all are the work of thy hand.

Man says, "What, when I am dead shall I then be brought forth alive?" Will not man remember that We created him aforetime, when he was nothing?

It's better to fight for something than against something.

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

Life is about making dreams come true.

Money for the wise is a necessity of life, not a reason to live

Deus vult [God wills it].

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is not death but the inability to do what should be done at the right time

The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.

But what I do I do because I like to do.

There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean; the other is to wash them in order to wash them.

And how about you? Do you want to understand and play the game of life or fool around with miracles?

When you're living for nothing, you've got all your skills, you've got all your energy, you're relaxed, and you don't care. It doesn't matter to you whether you win or lose. Now there's human living for you. That's what life is all about.

When you see this you will understand how people attempt to gain the world and, in the process, lose their soul.