Purpose Quotes
Quotes about Purpose
533 quotes
- “No beating yourself up. That’s not allowed. Be patient with yourself. It took you years to form the bad habits of though...” — Holly Mosier
- “He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to be...” — Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare To Live Fully Right Where You Are
- “Off the Hook True story...A cop pulls me over for speeding.He says, "What's the hurry?"I say, "I'm running awayfrom a ba...” — Beryl Dov
- “Brewing Poetry Comma sips between the lines,insights percolate into a 10w,a latte sonnet here, a cappuccino couplet ther...” — Beryl Dov
- “It was after I first began to uplift my thoughts a bit that my cravings for junk food started to dissipate. I did not co...” — Holly Mosier
- “We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no di...” — Takayuki Yamaguchi, シグルイ 15
- “The Refugee I packed my car with cash and valuablesand headed for the border.At the first checkpoint they took my cash.A...” — Beryl Dov
- “But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some...” — Rainer Maria Rilke
- “Learn to say no to demands, requests, invitations, and activities that leave you with no time for yourself. Until I lear...” — Holly Mosier
- “I am a sacrifice bound with cords to the horns of the world's rock altar, waiting for worms. I take a deep breath, I ope...” — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim At Tinker Creek
- “Cookie Cutter Criticism A critic tried to fit my sense of humor in a cookie cutter,but it wouldn't fit his preconceived ...” — Beryl Dov
- “And there wasn’t anything he wanted to do that he couldn’t make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What m...” — Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
- “Figure out your passion. What floats your boat, rings your bell, lights your tree? A life without passion is possible, b...” — Toni Sorenson
- “Siesta Mud tracked from the rice fields blazon a pathFrom kitchen to cellar escaping noon’s wrath.A quiet siesta to brea...” — Beryl Dov
- “Creation is bringing potential into being, bringing inspiration into action. Inspiration and action are nothing when the...” — Kristi Bowman, Journey To One: A Woman's Story Of Emotional Healing And Spiritual Awakening
- “To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, ex...” — Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “The Pompous Psychopomp Its your charge to provide me safe passage to the afterlife,to be a midwife to my dying.Any yet, ...” — Beryl Dov
- “We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no...” — Donald Miller, A Million Miles In A Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
- “I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we articulated our experienc...” — Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
- “Our culture encourages us to plan every moment and fill our schedules with one activity and obligation after the next, w...” — Holly Mosier
- “Jesus has prepared the way and has made following our destiny possible, whereas we are helpless by ourselves. We can fin...” — Charles R. Swindoll
- “Girls like guys to be a challenge. It gives them some mold to fit in how they act. Like a mom. What would a mom do if sh...” — Stephen Chbosky, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
- “This is why I'm here on this planet, at this time, Francesca. Not to travel or make pictures, but to love you. I know th...” — Robert James Waller
- “A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things fir...” — Victoria Moran, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty
- “The most important reason for your “no” is that you need your downtime so you won’t behave like a jerk because you’re de...” — Holly Mosier
- “The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that kn...” — John Milton, Milton On Education, The Tractate Of Education,: With Supplementary Extracts From Other Writings Of Milton
- “Arches National Park, Utah BloodshotZiggurats of rock against unbending sky,sandstone fins and eyes of ancient earth beh...” — Beryl Dov
- “She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went ...” — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
- “NOT UNTIL I MET YOUNot until I felt your sunshine,Did I realize that I had been in the shade.Not until I saw all your co...” — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up And Salute The Sun: The Writings Of Suzy Kassem
- “Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than...” — Brené Brown, The Gifts Of Imperfection: Let Go Of Who You Think You're Supposed To Be And Embrace Who You Are
- “But there was a special kind of gift that came with embracing the chaos, even if I cursed most of the way. I'm convinced...” — Jennifer Delucy
- “But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had wi...” — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
- “Mongolian, Temeenii'malgai The small fuzzy hat worn by camels that cross the Gobi desert. Usually stolen by natives of U...” — Beryl Dov
- “Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to e...” — Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants
- “Leaping lemmings! Leaping lemmings!I so adore ya'Can't get enoughJust want more’o'ya'!When I've had my fill'o'ya',I long...” — Beryl Dov
- “It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a...” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- “Consciousness-Driven Evolution circa 60,000 B.C. Random genetic mutation allowed homo sapiens to compete more successful...” — Beryl Dov
- “Toasts During the hymeneal repast,The guest stood silent as toasts were cast.The Best Man bore witness to a dozen years ...” — Beryl Dov
- “In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impr...” — Michael Poeltl
- “Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the object...” — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
- “...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflen...” — Patti Smith, Just Kids
- “I live my life in widening circleThat reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one,But I give myself...” — Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book Of Hours: Love Poems To God
- “A Matter of Perspective I see rain dancing on the stage of the pond.Fish see heaven throwing a thousand kisses.My wife s...” — Beryl Dov
- “Men are not generally sufficiently aware of the distinction between the law of God and his purpose; they are apt to supp...” — John Witherspoon
- “. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the ...” — Jeremy Bentham, Constitutional Code; For The Use All Nations And All Governments Professing Liberal Opinions Volume 1
- “Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a ...” — Elizabeth Gaskell, My Lady Ludlow And Other Stories
- “Witticisms The greatest reward for coming up with some witty turn of phraseis that some day, if you're lucky,it may wind...” — Beryl Dov
- “Despite what you think you know, sometimes your plans may be interrupted. Because you were designed for a purpose. You a...” — Amaka Imani Nkosazana
- “The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and s...” — Paul David Tripp, Instruments In The Redeemer's Hands: People In Need Of Change Helping People In Need Of Change
- “Family {Couplet} For my misery, family brings relief,tripling my joy, halving my grief.This aesthetic arithmetic's quite...” — Beryl Dov