Quotes About Purpose

Whatever has been the highest experience in your life should become the centerpiece around which your life is structured.

It is not the content of your life that matters. It is the context of your life that does. So becoming a karma yogi does not mean you have to give up whatever you are doing right now. It means you do it with wholehearted involvement and, in the process, help create a more joyful world wherever you go.

When death knocks on your door, your life will be focused, and naturally, you turn inward, because outward is of no use anymore..

For a human being, life doesn't seem to end with survival; life begins with survival.

Those who work only for a livelihood often feel constrained and suffocated. But when you are deeply involved in your work on every level, you will find activity invigorates you; it does not exhaust you.

If you simply commit yourself to creating what you really care for, now once again your thoughts get organized in such a way that there are no hurdles. Your thoughts flow freely toward what you want, and once this happens, the manifestation of your desire is a natural consequence.

just watch whether you are for the Creator or against the Creator, every moment in your life. If you see this, everything will be settled. If you can't think of your Creator

This is the fundamental question about life. How do you want to spend this moment? People

You may think right now that you are going to your office, home, or football match, but as far as your body is concerned, it is going, moment by moment, straight toward the grave.

life doesn't seem to end with survival; life begins with survival.

unless we do the right things, the right things will not happen to us:

We act in order to express our fulfillment, not to acquire it.

One fundamental requirement for anybody who wishes to grow on the spiritual path is to have an un-deviated flow of energy towards one and only one goal in life: to attain to the highest and not settle for anything less than that.

I read aimlessly, until I learned to read selectively, with a purpose.

No one will know who we are... until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!

My black brothers and sisters—no one will know who we are…until we know who we are! We never will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!

When you have an organization that's neither political nor religious and doesn't take part in the civil rights struggle, what can it call itself? It's in a vacuum.

We plant, we nurture, we grow and we give, different flowers for different moments in time, but all for the same purpose: to say that which cannot be said, and to say it with beauty and with grace.

If you want to be a garbage man, be a garbage man, but be the best garbage man you can be. (p. 8)

Tous nous collaborons à l'accomplissement d'une oeuvre unique, les uns en connaissance de cause et avec intelligence, les autres sans s'en rendre compte

Wer nicht weiß, was die Welt ist, der weiß auch nicht, wo er lebt. Wer aber den Zweck ihres Daseins nicht kennt, der weiß weder, wer er selbst, noch was die Welt ist. Wem aber eins von diesen Stücken fehlt, der kann auch wohl seine eigene Bestimmung nicht angeben. In welchem Lichte erscheint dir nun ein Mensch, welcher um den lauten Beifall derer buhlt, die nicht wissen, wo, noch wer sie selbst sind?

Niemand wird müde, seinen Nutzen zu suchen; Nutzen aber gewährt eine naturgemäße Tätigkeit. Werde also nicht müde, deinen Nutzen zu suchen, indem du anderen Nutzen gewährst!

Those who lack faith and commitment live without purpose. They do not work for the sake of the goal but only for their own pleasure, to gain honor or money.

Se que las almas de los muertos muchas veces permanecen vagando por tal o cual lugar para cumplir tal o cual objetivo