Quotes About Purpose

Is it easier to be than to do?

So many grown-up people seem to be nothing very much.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

My meeting you was no coincidence. It's more than that!

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.

The downside is that by recognizing our total dependence on powers beyond ourselves, we can be filled with an overwhelming sense of religious obligation and guilt at not fulfilling it. One way out of this sense of inadequacy is to become an atheist. If everything happens automatically and unconsciously, if there is no purpose or providence in the world, then there is nothing to feel grateful for. But this liberation comes at a high price. Being ungrateful is often accompanied by unhappiness.

I get up at seven yeah and I go to work at nine. I got no time for livin'. Yes I'm workin' all the time. It seems to me I could live my life a lot better than I think I am. I guess that's why they call me they call me the workin' man.

Life is just a candle, and a dream must give it flame.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Each of us can be fearless and strong like this rock when we know, without a doubt, where we belong and what we should do. God helps us to know these things.

A Quiet Mind Lord, give me a quiet mind, That I might listen; A gentle tone of voice, That I might comfort others; A sound and healthy body, That I might share In the joy of walking And leaping and running; And a good sense of direction So I might know just where I'm going!

The first condition of happiness is that a man must find joy in his work. Unless the work brings joy, the tedium of an aimless life can be soul-destroying. Something

The world seems crowded with unfinished lives.

There are better things to do with our time on this earth.

Of what use is a poppy in a cornfield? Of what use is a rainbow? Of what use are you, numbskull? Wretch! I, too, have a soul. I want the umbrella, because-because I want its beauty to be mine!

Must everything have a purpose? Must a star have a purpose? Must a pretty sparkler have a purpose other than to emit light? Must a beautiful stone have a purpose?

The first condition of happiness is that a man must find joy in his work. Unless the work brings joy, the tedium of an aimless life can be soul-destroying.

I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of the day. I cannot live like the gardener, the cook and water-carrier, doing the same task everyday of my life... I want to be either somebody or nobody. I don't want to be anybody.

All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?