Tagged: purpose
“Whatever you do with your life—whatever you end up achieving or not achieving—the great gift you have in you to give to the world is the gift of who you alone are; your way of seeing things, and saying things, and feeling about things, that is like nobody else’s. If so much as a single one of you were missing, there would be an empty place at the great feast of life that nobody else in all creation could fill.” -Frederick Buechner, The Clown in The Belfry – Writings on Faith and Fiction
“… our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, & live our lives as inspirations to each other.” —Aron Ralston, 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” -Cecil Beaton, The Unexpergated Beaton
“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guiltly and your purpose when you are confused.” -Alan Cohen
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” -Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
“For you will certainly carry out purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you wether you serve like Judas or like John.” -C.S. Lewis