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Quotes About Purpose

This is the sole purpose of the spiritual process. The life and work of every spiritual guide, across history and across culture, has been just this: to point out that the cage door does not exist. Whether you fly or choose to remain in the limitations of the cage—let that be a conscious choice. The
~ Sadhguru
Admonished for his lack of familiarity with twentieth century science, Sundar Singh said, 'What is science?' 'Natural selection and survival of the fittest,' he was told. 'Ah,' Sundar Singh replied, 'but I am more interested in divine selection and the survival of the unfit.
~ Sadhu Sundar Singh
How shall we go to sleep and wake up when we have no intention of sleeping or waking?
~ Sahar Tawfiq
Liberation from the enslaving desires of the senses, and the reactions of the mortal mind is the aim and purpose of human life"-
~ Sai Baba
Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.
~ Said Nursi
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
~ Saint Augustine
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
~ Saint Augustine
Our time for this life is nothing other than a race to death.
~ Saint Augustine
Sweet Love say Where, how and when What do you want of me? Yours I am, for You I was born: What do you want of me? . . .
~ Saint Teresa of Avila
Articulating and expanding your motivation when you wake up in the morning has the power to change your whole day.
~ Sakyong Mipham
The point of handling our motivation is not necessarily to channel it into a drive to be successful; that would be ambition. Rather, the point is to
~ Sakyong Mipham
What is my motivation?
~ Sakyong Mipham
There are long periods when life seems a small dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence." The
~ Sally Bedell Smith
Who are you when you are no longer who you are? What do you do with a self that is no longer your self? If you don't know who you are, how do you go on living? If you cannot live as yourself, who and what is it that you are living for?
~ Sally Brampton
There is one thing we know about meaning: that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are.
~ Sally Brampton
From the moment we take our first breaths, our days are numbered, so how we live matters. The decisions we make—the important ones and, yes, the mundane ones too—they all matter. Everyday decisions add up to form the life we live and the legacy we leave behind.
~ Sally Clarkson
Own your faith. Take responsibility for the miracles God wants to do in and through your life. No one else can faithfully show the people He has entrusted into your care what it means to live by faith. No one else can accomplish the work He created you to do.
~ Sally Clarkson
the fundamental mission of motherhood now is the same as it always was: to nurture, protect, and instruct children, to create a home environment that enables them to learn and grow, to help them develop a heart for God and his purposes, and to send them out into the world prepared to live both fully and meaningfully.
~ Sally Clarkson
God "has planted eternity in the human heart" (Ecclesiastes 3:11, NLT).
~ Sally Clarkson
In a culture that often views a child in terms of the expense in time and money he will cost in his lifetime, how important it is to intentionally recognize the infinite value of a tiny human being, created with the very imprint and image of God on his life, and to understand that this little one's life will have consequences for eternity.
~ Sally Clarkson
Your one life is a great tale, one facet of God's continuing narrative within the world.
~ Sally Clarkson
We live to die, we die to eternally live.
~ Sally Gardner
You make sense of a world that is senseless. You gave me space boots so that I could walk on other planets. Without you, I'm lost. There's no left, no right. No tomorrow, only miles of yesterdays. It doesn't matter what happens now because I've found you. That's why I'm here. Because of you. You who I love. My best friend. My brother." Hector
~ Sally Gardner
it lies in the capacity to be fully present. Present for a task, for a conversation, for the moment, for an opportunity. Present for your larger purpose in the world.
~ Sally Helgesen