Quotes About Purpose

Living with purpose was hard.

Sometimes sacrifice was necessary in pursuit of a worthy goal.

Katherine wouldn't lead all her descendants here for chervil, would she?

One of your first tasks, then, is to ask yourself: why do I care about this? The answer will make you feel entitled to tell your own story—to accept that it is not only worthy of being written down but fit material for literature—something you want to revise and craft until it is beautiful.

I want more from life than that and I have more to give.

Something is missing, and it's something not so easy to name as semiabsent husbands, not so easy to point to as a lack of work, or too much work, or a lack of adequate child care. It's the sense that life should have led up to more than it has. A sense that after all the hard work, for all our achievements as individuals and as a postfeminist generation, life should be better than this.

Keep busy, Sandy ... when you're busy you don't have time to brood ... Life should be more than keeping busy. Maybe it should be, but for most of us, it's not.

A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.

A life without goals isn't worth living.

not everything has to have a point, some things just are.

Man's Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankel.

Turn your face to me Turn your gaze and see All the pain surrounding you Every song you hear With a heart sincere Brings a chance for you to do Something more Than Be Alone Something more Than Be Unknown Be the one who does More than she who was Be alive in joy and hope Be the one who does More than she who was Be alive in joy and hope

We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. MARGARET YOUNG

as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. MARTHA GRAHAM

We are being called today to come beyond the realm of blessing, into becoming a finished product of "His workmanship," that the Christ within may become manifest and be revealed as His witness in the earth, with substance and power.

The Lord seeks those who are willing to lay down their reliance, not only on their intellectual ability, but also on the "gift" realm as well, for a complete dependence on the operation of the Holy Spirit through them - speaking the right word, at the right time, to the right person (the spirit of prophecy). This will be a penetrating, anointed word that will accomplish the purpose for which it is spoken, and will become a "witness" of the Lord.

Once we have become clear in our minds that the after–life truly exists, we realize that the sole aim of our earthly existence should be to strive for success in the life to come, for, unlike the present ephemeral world, the Hereafter is eternal and real. What we understand by suffering and solace in this world cannot be compared with the suffering and solace of the Hereafter. Many individuals lead immoral, even criminal existences because they feel that we are free to do

Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?

What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man's destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.