Quotes About Purpose

I must reclaim my good life and I must return to my good works.

One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.

Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life?

When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.

As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.

Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.

I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I dont know why.

I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like, I have all this passion that wants to explode, but I don't know where to aim it yet.

If I have a great game, I don't get too high. If I have a terrible game, I don't get too low. I know that there's more to this life and we were created for more than just to play a game.

Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.

I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.

My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.

A life that is lived without regard to God cannot be called living.

Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way. We have to assume responsibility for our role. To run away from it causes misery.

If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.

No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.

At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life.

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

Lady Maccon cogitated. She would like to encourage this new spirit of social-mindedness. If Felicity needed anything in her life, it was a cause. Then she might stop nitpicking everyone else.

If not now, then when?