Quotes About Purpose

la gente trata de ganar el mundo y cómo, al hacerlo, pierde su vida. Y es que viven unas vidas vacías, monótonas, sin alma...

Yet my experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.

Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be?

in time you will come to believe that there is nobility in being part of an enterprise that will outlast you.

Am I following a path already laid out for me, or am I making it myself?

You have minds," Bastian murmurs one evening in the refectory, each boy hunching almost imperceptibly farther over his food as the commandant's finger grazes the back of his uniform. "But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.

Even if you don't believe in it, I do. Otherwise what's it all been for?

Anna imagines Antonius Diogenes, whoever he was, setting knife to quill, quill to ink, ink to scroll, placing one more barricade in front of Aethon, stretching time for another purpose: to detain his niece in the living world for a little longer.

How do they know what parts to play, those little bees?

You have minds. But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.

But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.

Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.

There are many people in this world," Himerius says, "who do not care to what purposes their engines are put. So long as they are paid.

They always seem to be going somewhere and never doubt that it is the right place to be going.

Don't you want to be alive before you die?

Only through the harshest tests can God's chosen rise.

O take me, take me up into the ranks so that I do not die a common death! I do not want to die in vain, what I want is to fall on the sacrificial mound.

He thinks of the old broken miners he'd see in Zollverein, sitting in chairs or on crates, not moving for hours, waiting to die. To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it's a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it. Fighting for it. Working so hard not to spill one single drop.

from Marilynne Robinson's Gilead comes back to me. "There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.

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success is not about wealth or fame, it's about making a difference in other people's lives every single day of our lives

The love of the married man and woman is not a private romance, but a recapitulation of the love that brought them into being in the first place, and that love is what we all duly celebrate.

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being.

I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.