Quotes About Purpose

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are, and what this life is for.

More than human, can you have any use for life? Less than human, you don't either.

Maybe the making of mistakes expressed the very purpose of his life and the essence of his being here.

Everybody wanted to be what he was to the limit.

You burn the house to roast the pig.

Goethe once stated that anyone who merely increased his knowledge without at the same time showing himself what to do with it poisoned his life.

Man proposes and God disposes.

The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.

Unhappiness that is caused by too much success is a high-class problem. That's the sort of unhappiness people work all of their lives to get. If you find yourself there, and I hope you do, you'll find your attention naturally turning outward. You'll seek happiness through service to others. I promise it will feel wonderful.

Success caused passion more than passion caused success.

Happiness has more to do with where you're heading than where you are.

If you achieve your goal, you celebrate and feel terrific, but only until you realize you just lost the thing that gave you purpose and direction. Your options are to feel empty and useless, perhaps enjoying the spoils of your success until they bore you, or set new goals and reenter the cycle of permanent presuccess failure.

Ethics are important because they give direction to people and societies who have some sense that they cannot flourish without being moral.

teleological systems are systems that are based on the end result produced by an action.

Yet even more than He made man and woman for the sake of work, He made work for the sake of man and woman— because only through work could they become truly godlike. It's

If the end of human law is the promotion of the common good among men, the divine law has for its purpose nothing less than our friendship with God.

God has loved us first, and he has made us for himself. He "desires" our love, and so he leaves us free, for true love cannot be coerced.

Why has God done the things that he has done in history? One word: Love.

Good plans almost never contain the word somehow.

And yes, it all might end at any moment for any of us, in violence or not, but what matters is what we do before that. The lives we lead.

That letter was your whole future, you daft prince. It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going. We save each other. That's how it works.

What if destiny doesn't care?

She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.

She was nothing in particular. But at least she had a purpose.