Quotes About Purpose

Somos lo que pretendemos ser así que debemos tener cuidado con lo que pretendemos ser (Kurt Vonnegut)

I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

He noticed that he felt calmer now she was here, still in that grey dress with her dowdy hat, the air around her redolent with orchid oil. Perhaps all women in England had this effect. Perhaps they all smelled of flowers and exuded a calm and measured purpose. He couldn't remember.

Ambition is your special ware And you have dared to call it passion.

Unless I learn to ask no help From any other soul but mine, To seek no strength in waving reeds Nor shade beneath a straggling pine; Unless I learn to look at Grief Unshrinking from her tear-blind eyes, And take from Pleasure fearlessly Whatever gifts will make me wise— Unless I learn these things on earth, Why was I ever given birth?

How do I happen to believe in God? . . . Writing novels, I got into the habit of looking for plots. After awhile, I began to suspect that my own life had a plot. And after awhile more, I began to suspect that life itself has a plot. —FREDERICK BUECHNER

Catechesis means impressing upon youth a Life, not a religion. —KENDA DEAN AND RON FOSTER

When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes - 'time to save the world!'

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.

Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it's a waste of time.

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

Killing time is not murder, it is suicide.

Enchantment and seduction were fine means of persuasion, but when time is short, an awkward but quick concussion could better serve a girl's purpose.

There's a time and purpose for being lost. If you don't judge the being lost you get through it sooner.

If we can take the time to mute the noise we've build around ourselves the rhythm of the heartbeats and the purpose may be clear.

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that."

There's no time to waste. Every day, there needs to be movement on something.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

No time is wasted time