Purpose Quotes - Page 20

If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be readily understood except on the basis of faith and hope because there is often a larger purpose which we do not always understand. Peace comes through hope.

The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'

The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, . . . stubborn will.

The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.

Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

We don't have to go in search of our mission or purpose. The more we search for it, the more it will elude us. We just have to be ourselves and find our joy in the present moment or do what calls us in the present moment and our mission will unfold.

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.

How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?

Life's trials are not easy. But in God's will, each has a purpose. Often He uses them to enlarge you.

My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want to cause any unhappiness now—in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn’t here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly.

Whatever impresses you attracts you. Whatever you pursue becomes your purpose.

Profit isn't a purpose, it's a result. To have purpose means the things we do are of real value to others.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.

If I can make people smile, then I have served my purpose for God.

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire.

What is the ultimate purpose of life? It's to give.

Circumstances and crises are God's tools to move you into your purpose and the maximizing of your potential.

When you have a Clear purpose, you won't have time for negativity

No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose

I suspect that many of us, if given the chance to make one person in our lives love us more, would have no trouble in choosing where to point a finger. We are all needy, all vulnerable, all terrified that perhaps that person has an excellent reason to withhold affection. We shape our purposes to make ourselves worthy and often do not see until much later how it was love-or perhaps the lack of it-that both picked us up and dropped us off at crossroads.

We want to do something and a definition is a means of doing it. If we want certain results then we must use certain meanings or definitions. But no definition has any authority apart from a purpose, or to bar us from other purposes.