Quotes about Purpose

At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, tending in a certain direction.

One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

It is not what we do, it is how much love we put in the doing.

This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good, but what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, and not loss; good, and not evil; success, and not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price I have paid for it.

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.