Quotes About Purpose

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.

Ask not what your age wants," Brownson said, "but what it needs; not what it will reward, but what, without which, it cannot be saved; and that go and do; and find your reward in the consciousness of having done your duty, and above all in the reflection that you have been accounted to suffer somewhat for mankind.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven.

Only do shit you believe in!

My life has become a story. One day your life with become a story too. All we can do is have faith that life leads us where it does for a reason, so we can learn things we didn't know about ourselves. One day you will look back on your suffering and you will find a meaning for it and that will be your story" -Baba

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

I think it was beshert—destined—that you become a nurse.

The real surprise was not that this happened but the fact that the shift was so subtle. After all, the purposes for which I was using the Scriptures were not bad in and of themselves. It's just that over time, without my awareness, those purposes had trumped the greater purpose for which the Scriptures have been given: to allow my own heart and soul to be penetrated by an intimate word from God. My mind remained engaged, but my heart and soul had drifted far away.

Jesus indicates that it is possible to gain the whole world but lose your own soul. If he were talking to us as Christian leaders today, he might point out that it is possible to gain the world of ministry success and lose your own soul in the midst of it all.

Ask me not where I live      or what I like to eat. . . .      Ask me what I am living for      and what I think is keeping me      from living fully for that. THOMAS MERTON, Thoughts in Solitude

There is the tension between being and doing, community and cause

he might point out that it is possible to gain the world of ministry success and lose your own soul in the midst of it all. He might remind us that it is possible

I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.

If you wake up in some field during a storm with an iron bar glued to your hand, obviously someone wants you to be a lightning rod.

You can't live the life you want, and you can't earn the death you think you deserve.

Will you take him with you? Is he to become a Jedi?" "Yes." Qui-Gon said. "Our meeting was not a coincidence. Nothing happens by accident.

to live is to love and to love is to live that's life

Yet we may constantly do more in what we are than in what we do. We may serve better in the lives we live than in the best service we ever give. The memory of that should bring rest to your spirit when a bit tired, and may be disheartened because tired.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

Purpose and revenge were all I needed. Everything else be damned." His face darkened with something more intense than mere desire. "Until you, Rose. You make me feel more human than I ever felt when I was one.

In the partnership of a pure, holy purpose it (money) seems almost omnipotent. But when it is allowed to grip both lines and whip, it drives a man at such a pace as to use up all his strength, and leave him utterly winded for anything else.