Quotes About Purpose

The earth exists not for us but for itself; the Sun shines not for us, but for its own life!

Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.

God works funny so it might have just been meant for me to be an artist that doesn't sell two million records. Maybe my records might change somebody's life rather than sell thru the roof.

God wants the world to function in an orderly way, not a chaotic way, so teaching humans to do what's right and what will make for the happiest life isn't going to be off limits.

In order to get somewhere in life, you need to have a vision. The vision brings you to the table. Without a vision, you just do what everybody else does and you are just there.

I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life.

If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.

Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.

My art and profession is to live.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life.

Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado.

If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow

I think that if you're doing something that's important, that's significant in your life, it takes some of the pain away.

I think my life did go the way it was supposed to go for me.

You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.

Human life doesn't seem to have much significance, and I don't know why.

Try to live as if there were a God

You must keep a careful, correct perspective on life that this is not about me but about me serving my gift to the world.

Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others.

If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.

I feel like personally I have more drive now than I did then probably because I care more and also because I've reached the mid-life point.

Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care