Quotes About Purpose

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be means to that end.

MOST OF US MAKE at least three important decisions in our lives: where to live, what to do and with whom to do it.

A world full of people who want to know what you will be, what is your skill and what is your purpose. In the north, if a man had come and said "What will you be? What will you do?" I would have laughed at this kind of person that lives all the time in the future.

O grande desejo do rio é ser rio. Ele não quer ser outra coisa. E ele só não poderá sê-lo se abandonar sua verdadeira vocação.

O grande desejo do rio é ser rio. Ele não quer ser outra coisa. E ele só não poderá sê-lo se abandonar sua verdadeira vocação. Acontecerá com ele o que acontece com todos os que, homens ou mulheres, abandonam sua missão: ficará doente, podre, fedorento. Água parada cria lodo, e a vida vai embora. Ninguém quer tomar banho em um rio com água parada, pois sabe que ali não há alegria. Ali estará um ser que desistiu.

Je pense encore au cordonnier de P., mort de n'avoir pas trouvé repreneur à sa cordonnerie. "Alors ma vie ne vaut rien?" C'est ce qu'il ne cessait de répéter. Personne ne voulait racheter sa raison d'être. "Tout ça pour rien?" Il en est mort de chagrin.

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

As I wandered the streets in a desolate funk, I would ask myself the impossible, the embarrassing, the ultimate childish question of Why? - Why this city? Why this life? Why anything? Of course I knew that "why" was a question you were supposed to stop asking around the age of ten but I couldn't free myself from it.

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We live in a world of breathtaking material plenty. That has freed hundreds of millions of people from day-to-day struggles and liberated us to pursue more significant desires: purpose, transcendence, and spiritual fulfillment.

The secret to high performance and satisfaction is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

You are not going to find the meaning of life hidden under a rock written by someone else. You'll find it by giving meaning to life from inside yourself

When we live to glorify God and not ourselves, we are answering the purpose for which God made us and redeemed us. It is in this kind of life alone that true and lasting joy, satisfaction, contentment, and pleasure are found. HOW

Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.

Everything I did, I did as a matter of conscience.

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So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

I reckon I always had been huntin' for a place to plant my feet and go down swinging.

Grunt work is my main calling, but I like to be dead when I do it.

You—with all your weaknesses and flaws—were made for this. You—in all of your struggles and pain—are enough.

God made you good, and you are enough. Thanks be to God for the gift of you.

There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go...

The temporary suffering of existence is worth more than the final void of nothingness.

The purpose of all of these rooms is to show people that they can be in control of their lives through God,