Quotes about Purpose

It doesn't matter where you came from. All that matters is where you're going.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Stop living to please everyone else. God gave you a unique heart, so do what He wants you to do.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.

You will give yourself relief, if you do every act of your life as if it were the last.

It's been said thousands of times, in all faiths and philosophies. Know thyself. What may be less clear in these wise expressions is the reason we learn to know ourselves: we develop a knowledge of self so that we can give up the self and serve others.

only that "WHO-center" were obvious and accessible, and if only we could steer our course by it, knowing truly that God is in all things and all choices, seeking to draw the more life-giving outcome from all we do.

As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.