Quotes About Purpose

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

It is not what happens to me that makes me great, but what I do.

Es una eterna ley del amor, que dos seres deben sentirse nacidos uno para el otro desde el primer momento en que comenzaron a amarse

Det gäller att finna en sanning, som är sanning för mig, att finna en idé för vilken jag vill leva och dö.

When you love you give meaning to this world.

I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.

I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let me avoid the tenure race and full-time teaching.

See karma, make dharma

I can live my legacy or just have led a busy life.

No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.

The purpose of this life and all its experiences is not to make ourselves what we think we should be. It is to unfold who we already are.

Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?

Every path serves a purpose.

Whatever inspires you fires you.

If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.

Everyone should try to scratch their name on the bomb of life.

Let all live as they would die.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.