Quotes About Purpose

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It's what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.

It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere.

Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.

I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.

God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

Just think life's too short to get hung up on maybes.

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

When everything else seems unclear, at least I'll know I do it for the joy it brings.

Don't waste your one beautiful life.

When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.

You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don't feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.

You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life.

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

Use life to provide something that outlasts it.

There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation