Quotes About Purpose

We live in all we seek.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.

Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.

We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.

When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it? But the world without light is wasteland and chaos, and a life without sacrifice is abomination.

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

Write as if you were dying.

There is always an enormous temptation to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end.

If indeed [nature] has no greater aim than to provide a home for her greatest experiment, Man, it would be just like her methods to scatter a million stars wherof one might haply achieve her purpose.

I had hope for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface, and exit through it.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give your whole heart to whatever you do.

But books don't happen by accident.

Öldürüyorum, öyleyse var?m.

I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

In Frank I have found something beyond me, beyond my understanding, this is where some incredible core of me is destined to be even if not in this life.

There is only one life; it is therefore perfect.

People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you

When people are actively engaged in a cause their lives have more purpose… with a resulting improvement in mental health

Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it.

Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.

Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.

When people are actively engaged in a cause their lives have more purpose… with a resulting improvement in mental health," Lyons wrote in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research in 1979. "It would be irresponsible to suggest violence as a means of improving mental health, but the Belfast findings suggest that people will feel better psychologically if they have more involvement with their community.

three basic things in order to be content: they need to feel competent at what they do; they need to feel authentic in their lives; and they need to feel connected to others.