Quotes about Purpose
I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.
- Oswald Chambers
What would God have me do with my life?
- Ezra Taft Benson
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
- Victor Hugo
It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
- Virginia Woolf
It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning
- Albert Camus
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
- Aristotle
The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life possible if we choose to live it now.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.
- Thomas a Kempis
it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.
- Hannah More
What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.
- Henry David Thoreau
I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after incident after incident whose little explosions keep me going.
- JM Coetzee
Life is supposed to be lived for God and for others.
- Jerry Falwell