Quotes About Purpose

Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all.

I write to figure out what I am thinking: What does my life mean?

When I look at my longterm goals for the rest of my life, there are so many things other than performing that make me happy.

Everything in my life has been leading up to this," he whispered. "Everything that's happened, everything I've done has been worth it because it's brought me here.

There is life after acting.

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?

We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.

There is no life higher than the grasstops

I feel I am blessed that I have found my stride and relaxed into my life's purpose.

If you become a monk because it's an easy life, because you're going to be fed, and sheltered and people will respect you, then that is not a very meritorious motivation.

If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

Things you plan in life usually turn out to be meaningless, things you accumulate without knowing it become your real treasure.

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.

It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man to measure life; but it is possible to say, I am resolved to put life to its noblest and best use.

Everyone feels that void. Everyone who has the balls to look inside themselves, anyway. It's what life's all about.. A search.

I've always known where I wanted to go in life.

When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.

Life is not a tour of gas stations.

I really try to enjoy life and have joy with what I do.

Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.