Quotes About Purpose

Don't you think it was a little selfish to travel around the world looking for yourself?" She always answered, "You know what? I actually think it would have been a little selfish to spend the rest of my life in narcissistic, depressive, anxious misery. That person adds nothing to society, adds nothing to any room that she enters, adds nothing to the people whom she touches. The best community service I can possibly offer the world is to stay healthy and sane.

Intention, Attention, No Tension.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

Stop wandering about! You aren't likely to read your own notebooks, or ancient histories, or the anthologies you've collected to enjoy in your old age. Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue-if you care for yourself at all-and do it while you can.

In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass.

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.

Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.

What else did you expect from helping someone out? Isn't it enough that you've done what your nature demands? You want a salary for it too? As if your eyes expected a reward for seeing, or your feet for walking. That's what they were made for.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time—even when hard at work.

Manusia mampu melakukan semua yang Tuhan ingin ia lakukan.

our own worth is measured by what we devote our energy to.

At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, I have to go to work - as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for - the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

a limit of time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and thou wilt go, and it will never return.

Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able—be good. 18.

Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.