Quotes About Purpose

I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don't know where to begin.

Let go of this: "You will one day find your true passion and life can really begin." Grab onto this: "You will CREATE a life that you are passionate about living with every decision you make every day.

We all walk the assigned path.

When presented with a choice of beginnings, choose the one with meaning.

No, I haven't decided where to live yet." He thought, I haven't decided if I want to live yet.

He said we had become redundant to ourselves

You were chosen, Noah, because you've proven that you will take action when action must be taken. You don't agonize over it, you simply decide whether action needs to be taken, and then you act on that decision.

God puts us where He wants us when He wants us. What that means is that we will find ourselves

Without being a cop, Sam Prichard wasn't really all that sure who he was.

God puts us where He wants us when He wants us. What that means is that we will find ourselves in other people's lives when those people need us the most.

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years of development have had no purpose other than to put him on earth. There is no scientific evidence whatever to support such a view and no reason to suppose that our stay here will be any more permanent than that of the dinosaur.

There are people that who want to be someone and there are people that want to do something.

The only way to exact meaning from an otherwise futile existence is to connect yourself by faith to God.

Money is not an end in itself. It is merely a tool to help us achieve some particular goal. If the way we handle our money conflicts with our personal values, we are not going to wind up living happy and fulfilled lives.

If you don't know where you're going, you might not like where you end up.

That's the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from random life?

But if you don't know where you want to go, I suppose any path will get you there.

There's always more to life than money, Will. Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal. Annnie Lambert

The only work really worth doing — the only work you can do convincingly — is the work that focuses on the things you care about. To not focus on those issues is to deny the constants in your life.

Most of us spend most of our time in other peoples' worlds — working at predetermined jobs, relaxing to pre-packaged entertainment — and no matter how benign this ready-made world may be, there will always be times when something is missing or doesn't quite ring true.

We tell the stories we have to tell, stories of the things that draw us in-and why should any of us have more than a handful of those? The only work really worth doing-the only work you can do convincingly-is the work that focuses on the things you care about. To not focus on those issues is to deny the constants in your life.

But curiously, while artists always have a myriad of reasons to quit, they consistently wait for a handful of specific moments to quit. Artists quit when they convince themselves that their next effort is already doomed to fail. And artists quit when they lose the destination for their work — for the place their work belongs.

HENRY JAMES once proposed three questions you could productively put to an artist's work. The first two were disarmingly straightforward: What was the artist trying to achieve? Did he/she succeed? The third's a zinger: Was it worth doing?