Quotes about Purpose

An education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries.

Do we, for instance, carry on our work in our nest or do we only reside and get our mail there? Is our nest a place of consumption only or is it also a place of production?

There is a use for everyone.

The significance - and ultimately the quality - of the work we do is determined by our understanding of the story in which we are taking part.

In time, against conscience and even will, my grief for him began to include grief for myself. Sometimes I would get the feeling that I was going to waste. It was my life calling me to itself. It was the light that shines in darkness calling me back into time.

Teaching as a purpose, as such, is difficult to prescribe or talk about because the thing it is proposing to make is usually something so vague as "understanding.

Se poate întâmpla ca, atunci când nu mai È™tim ce s? facem, s? fi ajuns la adev?rata noastr? munc?, iar când nu mai È™tim pe ce cale s? o lu?m, s? fi început adev?rata noastr? c?l?torie.

And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led—make of that what you will.

Every day you have less reason Not to give yourself away.

For many of the churchly, the life of the spirit is reduced to a dull preoccupation with getting to Heaven.

He turned to his own place then . . . and began to ask what might be the best use of it. How might a family live there without reducing it?

My life, though, has been something (as only now at last I am able to see), but it is something that it has made of itself, not something that I have made of it. All I seem to have done is avoid wherever I could (so far) the man across the desk—for (so far) the world has afforded a little room for a few of us, lucky or blessed, to go around him. And now I wonder if I can die quickly enough and secretly enough to make the final evasion.