Quotes About Purpose

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

I do not feel like an alien in this universe. The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.' Freeman Dyson24

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

All life is a preparation for love.

You're not in this life for things to go well. You're in this life to be your deepest heart in all that goes well and in all that doesn't.

Reality doesn't exist for you. You exist for reality.

Love is why I came here in the first place.

Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.

I think love and beauty are what life is all about.

Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one's true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

A genuine purpose always starts with an impulse. Obstruction of the immediate execution of an impulse converts it into a desire. Nevertheless neither impulse nor desire is itself a purpose. A purpose is an end-view. That is, it involves foresight of the consequences which will result from acting upon impulse.

Traditional education tended to ignore the importance of personal impulse and desire as moving springs. But this is no reason why progressive education should identify impulse and desire with purpose and thereby pass lightly over the need for careful observation, for wide range of information, and for judgment is students are to share in the formation of the purposes which activate them

Hunger not to have, but to be

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.

Who ever loves, if he do not proposeThe right true end of love, he's one that goesTo sea for nothing but to make him sick.

On good days I hope we were formed for a purpose, but there is also a deep throbbing, a grim Celtic warning that life can be either full or futile. And there is no sense to how that will be revealed; we graft meaning on our lives as best we can.

life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

How do I get to Broadway?...I want to get to the center of things.

They say everything in the world is good for something.