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The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives. The only method of doing this is to assume a perfect resignation to the Divine will, to consider that whatever does happen, must happen; and that, by our uneasiness, we cannot prevent the blow before it does fall, but we may add to its force after it has fallen. These considerations, and others such as these, may enable us in some measure to surmount the difficulties thrown in our way; to bear up with a tolerable degree of patience under the burden of life; and to proceed with a pious and unshaken resignation, till we arrive at our journey's end.
— Thomas Jefferson
She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as distant drops of color. There was nothing else to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
You should never hit the snooze button when life gives you a wake up call.
— Rob Liano
Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn't mean they're lost forever.
— Charles Xavier (X-Men)
Occupy your thoughts with purpose and you will be so busy pursuing a meaningful future there will be no time for doubt, chaos and disappointment.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Learn to say no to demands, requests, invitations, and activities that leave you with no time for yourself. Until I learned to say no, and mean it, I was always overloaded by stress. You may feel guilty and selfish at first for guarding your down- time, but you’ll soon find that you are a much nicer, more present, more productive person in each instance you do choose to say yes.
— Holly Mosier
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Girls like guys to be a challenge. It gives them some mold to fit in how they act. Like a mom. What would a mom do if she couldn't fuss over you and make you clean your room? And what would you do without her fussing and making you do it? Everyone needs a mom. And a mom knowns this. And it gives her a sense of purpose. You get it?
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Our culture encourages us to plan every moment and fill our schedules with one activity and obligation after the next, with no time to just be. But the human body and mind require downtime to rejuvenate. I have found my greatest moments of joy and peace just sitting in silence, and then I take that joy and peace with me out into the world.
— Holly Mosier
The truth is that you are innately good, wise, and powerful. You were created in and for good.
— Deborah Day
Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.
— John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
In all of your living, don't forget to live.
— Ricky Maye
Jesus has prepared the way and has made following our destiny possible, whereas we are helpless by ourselves. We can find and fulfill our purpose by responding to the clear, simple call of Jesus Christ: "Follow Me." He is the doorway to fulfilling our destiny, where our divine design and God-ordained purpose live in perfect harmony.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Do it because it's right, not because it's right for your resume.
— Howard Behar, It's Not About the Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks
Confinement is not a part of your destiny. Your life purpose is to take the totality of your negative experiences, roll them up into one, and use them positively to lay the foundation for your destiny. Confinement is not a part of your destiny. Your life purpose is to take the totality of your negative experiences, roll them up into one, and use them positively to lay the foundation for your destiny.
— B.L. Brown
Leaders are passionate about the Purpose, while Managers need to be passionate about the Results!
— Amit  Chatterjee, Ascent: A Practising Manager's Growth Mantra
It is great to do what you love but greater with the great team.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer the experience from the comfort of their armchairs. - Quote from Her Past's Present.
— Michael Poeltl
Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason?" he asked Isabelle. "They are built to make you laugh, like the mouse here, or to tell the time, like clocks, or to fill you with wonder like the automaton. Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was made to do." Isabelle picked up the mouse, wound it again, and set it down. "Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose...it's like you're broken.
— Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Discover a purpose that gives you passion. Develop a plan that makes you persistent. Design a preparation and motivates you to optimize your potentials. Do it because you love it!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
You're a Dark One," said Anton. "All you see in everything is evil, treachery, trickery.""All I do is not close my eyes to them," Edgar retorted. "And that's why I don't trust Zabulon. I distrust him almost as much as I do Gesar. I can even trust you more—you're just another unfortunate chess piece who happens by chance to be painted a different color from me. Does a white pawn hate a black one? No. Especially if the two pawns have their heads down together over a quiet beer or two.""You know," Anton said in a slightly surprised voice, "I just don't understand how you can carry on living if you see the world like that. I'd just go and hang myself.""So you don't have any counterarguments to offer?"Anton took a gulp of beer too. The wonderful thing about this natural Czech beer was that even if you drank lots of it, it still didn't make your head or your body feel heavy... Or was that an illusion?"Not a single one," Anton admitted. "Right now, this very moment, not a single one. But I'm sure you're wrong. It's just difficult to argue about the colors of the rainbow with a blind man. There's something missing in you... I don't know what exactly. But it's something very important, and without it you're more helpless than a blind man.
— Sergei Lukyanenko, Day Watch
But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn.We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for the jacket's weight and warmth.The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence
— Israelmore Ayivor
Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.
— Emil M. Cioran
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
— William Seward
If we could push ajar the gates of life,And stand within, and all God's workings see,We could interpret all this doubt and strife,And for each mystery could find a key.But not today. Then be content, poor heart!God's plans, like lilies pure and white, unfold:We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart--Time will reveal the calyxes of gold.
— Mary Riley Smith
I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we articulated our experience and turned to language not to revel ourselves but to hide. I was as sure then as I am now that by looking at contemporary Iranian fiction I could gain access to a real understanding of political and social events. (p289)
— Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
The petty man wants to use God for himself
—  the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.
Purpose and passion - purpose is what will guide you to your best self and the passion will keep you there.
— Nikki Rowe
Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.
— Brian Tracy
I am a sacrifice bound with cords to the horns of the world's rock altar, waiting for worms. I take a deep breath, I open my eyes. Looking, I see there are worms in the horns of the altar like live maggots in amber, there are shells of worms in the rock and moths flapping at my eyes. A wind from no place rises. A sense of the real exults me; the cords loosen: I walk on my way.
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
For me it has always been easier here, where only the fundamentals count, to learn what every man must learn in this world.""And that, my lord?""Enough of the meaning of life to be ready to die.
— Margaret Craven, I Heard the Owl Call My Name
We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.
— Kami Garcia
Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues of one's behaviour.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders.
— Israelmore Ayivor
A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality.
— Israelmore Ayivor
The utmost form of respect is to give sincerely of your presence.
— Mollie Marti
Every person is a living treasure box. Listening holds the key.
— Mollie Marti
Has your soul a special mission? Yes. Your mission is in the inmost recesses of your heart, and you have to find and fulfil it there. There can be no external way for you to fulfil your mission. The deer grows musk in his own body. He smells it and becomes enchanted, and tries to locate its source. He runs and runs, but he cannot find the source. In his endless search, he loses all his energy and finally he dies. But the source he was so desperately searching for was within himself. How could he find it elsewhere?Such is the case with you. Your special mission- which is the fulfilment of your divinity- is not outside you, but within you. Search within. Meditate within. You will discover your mission.
— Sri Chinmoy, Yoga And The Spiritual Life; The Journey Of India's Soul
Peter's destiny lay along a different path from John's. And your calling is unlike anyone else's. But the call remains the same: "Follow Me!
— Charles R. Swindoll
The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into a position and expected to function. Everyone has a leadership potential carried within in a specific area of his or purpose. Leadership is universal and built on trust.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Helping others in need is not only a responsibility of life it is what gives meaning to life. 
— Mollie Marti
God is a God of purpose. He doesn't wake-up and start dabbling into things; He doesn't practice trial and error. His ways are sure, they may be low but they are always sure.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
And there wasn’t anything he wanted to do that he couldn’t make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can’t plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don’t happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?
— Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
You are the reality.The sense of of worship, love, devotion and loyalty.You are the purpose of life and existence. That is why I am still alive.
— M.F. Moonzajer
You were born to soar not to snore.
— Rob Liano
To feel more fulfilled your actions and activities need to be in alignment with what you deem important.
— Deborah Day
To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
— Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not happened.
— Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of the Scotch theologue, 'is not as natural as it looks.
— Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey
The thing about the Lexington International Bank ladder was that it was very long, and climbing it was very exhausting, and so Andrew Brown didn't have a lot of time to think about whether he really wanted to get to the top of it—and besides, since so many other people were climbing too, the view from the top must be worth it.So he kept going. He worked hard. He put his heart and mind and soul into it. There was an opening for a position half a rung higher than he already was. With a promotion, he might get two hours a week of a secretary's time. He'd go to more important meetings, with more senior people, and have the opportunity to impress them, and if he did he might be promoted again and then... well, of course eventually he'd be running the whole office. It's important to have a dream: otherwise you might notice where you really are.
— Naomi Alderman, Doctor Who: Borrowed Time
It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play — the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life — its facility, its use.
— William H. Gass, Fiction and the Figures of Life
But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, just once. And never again. But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
...all around George, approaching him, crossing his path from every direction, is the male and female raw material which is fed daily into this factory, along the conveyor-belts of the freeways, to be processed, packaged and placed on the market...What do they think they are up to? Well, there is the official answer; preparing themselves for life which means a job and security in which to raise children to prepare themselves for life which means a job and security in which...Here, in their midst, George feels a sort of vertigo. Oh God, what will become of them all? What chance have they? Ought I yell out to them, right now, here, that it's hopeless?But George knows he can't do that. Because, absurdly, inadequately, in spite of himself almost, he is a representative of hope. And the hope is not false. No. It's just that George is like a man trying to sell a real diamond for a nickel, on the street. The diamond is protected from all but the tiniest few, because the great hurrying majority can never stop to dare to believe that it could conceivably be real.
— Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man
Men are not generally sufficiently aware of the distinction between the law of God and his purpose; they are apt to suppose, that as the temper of the sinner is contrary to the one, so the outrages of the sinner are able to defeat the other; than which nothing can be more false.
— John Witherspoon
We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof...."These words, wrung from the very depths of his soul, surprised even Seigen himself. He had not risen in the world merely in order to satisfy his ambition, but in order to repudiate hierarchical society and the fixed class system.
— Takayuki Yamaguchi, シグルイ 15
[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression? Something like a cry, perhaps, a cry that, somehow, inexplicably contains all the millions of words that have ever existed, anywhere, in any age. In contrast with the spoken word and its classifying function, the purpose of writing seems, rather, to be a quest for the egg, the seed, nothing more.
— Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights
I remembered that once, as a child, I was filled with wonder, that I had marveled at tri-folded science projects, encyclopedias, and road atlases. I left much of that wonder somewhere between Mrs.Wheeler's class and Mondawmin Mall, somewhere between the schools and the streets. Now I had the privilege of welcoming it back like a long-lost friend, though our reunion was laced with grief; I mourned over all the years that were lost. The mourning continues. Even today, from time to time, I find myself on beaches watching six-year-olds learn to surf, or at colleges listening to sophomores slip from English to Italian, or at cafés seeing young poets flip though 'The Waste Land,' or listening to the radio where economists explain economic things that I could've explored in my lost years, mourning, hoping that I and all my wonder, my long-lost friend, had not yet run out of time, though I know that we all run out of time, and some of us run out of it faster.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Allow your pain to fuel your purpose. Some of the greatest opportunities you will ever experience in life will come from the greatest pain you have experienced in your life.
— Theresa Lewis
Take your beliefs into your everyday life. Practice what you preach. Self-observe. Correct. Try. Keep trying. Never give up.
— Akiroq Brost
Willpower and determination have their limits. A compelling life purpose, one you believe God created you for, will help you push beyond those limits
— Tom Cunningham
Your dream is the prayer the Universe makes to you, because in its fulfilment it grows together with you.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D., Sleepers: A Little Book on How to Find Hope, Meaning and the Courage to Fall in Love with Your Dreams
A drop of rain knows not where it lands after it is born from the cloud. It will then either remain in place till it evaporates, or it will try to make its way to the sea. Humans are the same. When they are born, they know not where they will land. However, they can either remain in place and die while accomplishing nothing, or they can find their true destiny.
— Charbel Tadros
Even if life has no purpose, it doesn’t mean that yours shouldn’t have one either. The universe will not care either way.
— Charbel Tadros
Death only comes when a being has served its purpose. From a narrow perspective, that purpose may not be clear, but in the grand scheme of things, it makes perfect sense.
— Charbel Tadros
You find your purpose by putting the mind in the service of the heart and not the other way around. (from The Amazing You movie)
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
A message from God... If You Accept It... I Would Give You the Glorious Gift of Seeing Yourself Exactly as I see You... And I See You as Perfection and of Immeasurable Importance.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Love Me Even More when I Seem Least Deserving... For That is the Very Moment That I Am Most in Need of Your Love.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Only Light can drive away the shadows, Darkness can never be diminished by more darkness.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
If I could tell the world just one thing... We are ALL OK, not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless anyway. We must not be made useless, must not worship the idol of despair... We must gather ourselves in faith for it is Light that the darkness does most fear. We are Eternal and NEVER broken. We must fall upon our knees in prayer, that We might be God's Hands... We are ALL OK.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
A most amazing defense with Power to destroy any enemy… GRATITUDE!
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
When carefully examined… I recognize that the Greatest things that have ever occurred in my Life could not have happened if not built upon ruins of the most difficult things that had occurred in my life. And in this recognition I find myself fully Grateful for the totality of my existence.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Through sincere Thankfulness, the incredibly difficult struggles of my yesterday, have been transformed into the“Good ol’ Days” upon which I can now Peacefully reflect .
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Upon waking this morning… What if all that remained were the people and things for which I had expressed Gratitude the day before? I shudder to think of all that would found to be missing.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Once I began taking inventory of ALL I was Grateful for, the warehouse I had packed with notebooks listing all I lacked became obsolete.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
I'm grateful for the dark shadow that is constantly following me... It reminds me always of the Loving Light that shines upon my face.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
I'm Thankful in the knowledge that EVERY moment of this Life has happened For Me...Not one moment has happened TO me.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
If Gratitude were a tree in a Bountiful orchard...Grace would be it's Seed bearing fruit.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
An abundance of thinking leads to me, me, me.An abundance of Thanking leads to YOU, YOU, YOU!
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
As I count my blessings, I feel God's Loving Hands touching each of them.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Gratitude is a Short-Cut which Speeds the Journey to Love :-)
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Moderation in all good things of this mortal world, however there must be no Spiritual moderation... Devotion to our lovingFather in Heaven must never be of moderation.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
If You Accept It... I Would Give You the Glorious Gift of Seeing Yourself As I See You.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Faith in God's Loving Kindness has truly been attained when both gain and loss bring the same degree of Gratitude.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Gratefulness is feeling the Love of God in everything He has given us - God has given us everything. Each breath ever drawn was a gift of His Love.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
True Forgiveness has been accomplished when you find yourself Thankful for the experience.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
I never speak from a place of perfection, for I have mastered no Spiritual matter, or worldly either, I speak only because I am seeking with all my Soul to consistently improve and progress, to be a bit more worthy this second than I was the last, And only desire to share my travels and ponderings, for as I share, even more is learned. Please take none of my words as judgement, for I am and never have been in a position to judge. Still a reminder... I have mastered none, I am still learning...It's good to have goals.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
As we began discussing authorship of a white paper summarizing our conclusions, we debated who our target audience should be and what kind of outcome we were hoping to achieve.
— Jennifer A. Doudna, A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
The Purpose of Friendship to Me is Having One to Complement Not One to Compete with!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Risk It, Be Different
Although each of her nurses was markedly different from the others in looks, dress, manner of speech, food and medical preferences, their similarities were glaring. There was no excess in their gardens because they shared everything. There was no trash or garbage in their homes because they had a use for everything. They took responsibility for their lives and for whatever, whoever else needed them. The absence of common sense irritated but did not surprise them. Laziness was more than intolerable to them; it was inhuman. Whether you were in the field, the house, your own backyard, you had to be busy. Sleep was not for dreaming; it was for gathering strength for the coming day. Conversation was accompanied by tasks; ironing, peeling, shucking, sorting, sewing, mending, washing, or nursing. You couldn't learn age, but adulthood was there for all. Mourning was helpful but God was better and they did not want to meet their Maker and have to explain a wasteful life. They knew He would ask each of them one question: "What have you done?
— Toni Morrison, Home
Being gifted means facing the next level of depth without ever being repulsed by the curse that comes with the magic of being different.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on.
— J.R. Rim
How can he not share his newfound joy with his fellow man? And it is joy. There’s a pure kind of joy in the certainty of belief. The certainty that your life has purpose and meaning.
— Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star
Consider--We are bornNot with purpose,But with potential.
— Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents
I believe that our sole responsibility is to reach out, uplift one another and lighten one another's burdens. If we are not doing this, then we are yet to start living. What a man owes his fellow is a transforming encounter.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Who said that life is a bed of roses and it is smooth sailing all the way? It is full of challenges and is a roller coaster ride with no respite. We have to deal with family issues, break ups, accidents, health issues, deaths and many other unforeseen calamities. Never give up and never ever give in. The challenge is to rise after you fall and come out stronger from that experience. Don’t be afraid, face life bravely and don’t deviate from your main purpose. Enjoy life to the hilt.
— Latika Teotia
Even you can’t tell yourself how to change, because you didn’t create you. To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God. He has no other agenda. He has no unmet needs he is hoping you can help him with. And he knows what the best version of you looks like. He delighted in the idea of it, and he is already working on it. The apostle Paul said, “We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him.” Which means God is at work every moment to help you become his best version of you.
— John Ortberg, The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
I do not walk into the storm unless I have been called into the storm. For the former is arrogance and the latter is obedience.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Turning imagination into matter is the most beautiful an fulfilling challenge of all. I was about to find out this is also my purpose and meaning.
— Gi Young
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Your purpose is the only thing you should make your obsession.
— Mensah Oteh
I don't want a new purpose. I want what's mine. I want my birthright.
— Faith Erin Hicks, The Stone Heart
What is the PURPOSE of Life? These questions only come when you are not experiencing the beauty of LIFE right now!!!!!!
— Harrish Sairaman
When you invest your life, you reproduce your life.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
Without purpose, we're zombies aimlessly roaming the earth.
— Ahmed Mostafa
What seems to be a chaotic life is just a systematic, engineered Life driven for a purpose!!! The day you find peace in chaos, the game changes!
— Harrish Sairaman
You and I were put on this earth to serve something greater than our narrow interests. When our focus becomes self-centered instead of God-centered we lose our greatest source of power. Our God-given talents are meant to benefit others. When we use them for that greater purpose, we put faith into action to fulfill His plan for us. We make a difference in this world that helps prepare us for the next.
— Nick Vujicic, Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action
I liked being needed by him. I liked making his food for him, running his baths for him, massaging his muscles. I liked caring for him, taking care of him. It made me feel like I had a real purpose. It felt so good to make him feel even the littlest bit better.
— Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted
Do you think God has a different purpose for every person,' Gisela asked, 'or is his purpose the same for everyone?'...'God wants us all to strive to grow more like Jesus, to become holy as he is holy, but God has a specific purpose for each person. How could it not be so? Everyone in a village cannot be a baker, because who would then make the candles or shoe the horses or grow the food? God says we are like a body. 'The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you." And the head cannot say the feet, "I don't need you."''Does the Bible say that?''Oh, yes, and it says, "Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is part of it." Just as the villagers are part of a village and have different tasks, we all have tasks to do for the Lord God.
— Melanie Dickerson, The Captive Maiden
The purpose of life is to emit positive vibrations in every direction in every way.
— Amit Ray
Your purpose is your identity focus your energy on great purposes. 
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
Start doing what you want to do. You will only get better with time. Or you’ll realize you want to be doing something else. Either way, one of those things is better than sitting & waiting!
— Harsh Agrawal, Google AdSense Mastery Guide: A-Z of Making Money from World's biggest Ad network
No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Lots of paths lead to beautiful places, but always remember someone had to make those paths. Have no fear in making your own path.
— Avina Celeste
I'm not meant to be part of the things that are wrong with the world, but neither am I meant to run from them. I'm meant to fight against them. I can't hold my own in the ring, but out in the world, I do know how to fight. With words. With truth.
— Ilyasah Shabazz, X
The fortunate is he whose earnest purpose never swerves,Whose slightest action or inaction servesThe one great aim.Why, even Death stands still, And waits an hour sometimesFor such a will.
— Ella Wilcox Wheeler
In art, music, and writing, if it's not of the heart, it means nothing.
— Terry a O'Neal
Decide what you what to do with your life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
For the glory of God, the good of others, and the satisfaction of our souls, the aim of the Christian life is our coming to share in…Christlikeness or godliness—which is ‘holiness’ rightly understood.
— David Mathis, Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines
Life is worthwhile when you walk on a path aligned to your purpose.
— Gift Gugu Mona
To live in love is my life’s purpose.
— Kamand Kojouri
You haven’t realized it yet but your life is precious. I always say that people should not do something that has no purpose. Is there a purpose behind your actions? Of course there is a purpose behind your decision to step into this bamboo forest. That is why your life is not meaningless. --The Unnamed Samurai (Chapter 5)
— Melissa Rose Lawrence, The Autumnal Winds
The only person to influence the direction and purpose of your life is the one who gave it. God!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
God recognizes celebration
— Sunday Adelaja
Employment leaves you distracted
— Sunday Adelaja
Time is the resource from which everything is made
— Sunday Adelaja
Time is the material from which everything is made
— Sunday Adelaja
Was it worth it? My death, I mean. Did I die for something worthwhile?
— Elizabeth Carlton, Chivalry's Code
Make sure your sphere of influence is a piece of Heaven
— Sunday Adelaja
Your calling and destiny is where your love and hate meet
— Sunday Adelaja
I will not cease to walk in the direction towards my purpose, even if it means constantly walking on a bumpy road.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Character and purpose are directly linked to confidence and conviction. What links them? Courage – to be oneself, no matter what others might say.
— Fennel Hudson, Fine Things - Fennel's Journal - No. 8
It is our duty as believers to bring joy and fortune to the less privileged among us
— Sunday Adelaja
If you don’t take care of the disenfranchised and outcasts of your city, they will come knocking on your door one day with revenge and bitterness
— Sunday Adelaja
When you show love and empathy to people, you draw them closer to your beliefs and traditions
— Sunday Adelaja
Bring solutions, results and change to people
— Sunday Adelaja
You can’t make a difference if you are not trained in the principles of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Take responsibility for the disenfranchised people
— Sunday Adelaja
Your calling and destiny is where your pain and joy meet
— Sunday Adelaja
You bring the influence of the Kingdom to the people by giving them things that would interest them
— Sunday Adelaja
Live your life as a practical example to others
— Sunday Adelaja
Don’t just be a church goer, find God
— Sunday Adelaja
When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism
— Sunday Adelaja
You shouldn’t claim the land alone but also take on responsibilities and change the land
— Sunday Adelaja
You should always make an impact in the area of your calling
— Sunday Adelaja
Always take responsibility for the social life of the people
— Sunday Adelaja
As believers, we should make the Kingdom of God visible to the people
— Sunday Adelaja
We can all make impact in achieving a common goal
— Sunday Adelaja
Our goal is to reflect the Kingdom of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Our sphere of influence should reflect righteousness
— Sunday Adelaja
The Kingdom of God is about peace, love, joy and righteousness
— Sunday Adelaja
You wouldn’t do things to hurt others if only you understood the principles of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Take responsibility for the city
— Sunday Adelaja
Influence is not about what you can do but how you use it to change the lives of others
— Sunday Adelaja
We should each be a carrier of the Kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
You should train disciples and followers to work and perform better than you did
— Sunday Adelaja
Don’t be satisfied with a particular sphere of influence only
— Sunday Adelaja
Always work on extending your territory and capacity
— Sunday Adelaja
Our main mandate in our place of work is to make sure that the people open up their hearts to others
— Sunday Adelaja
Use your influence to make impact and help others grow
— Sunday Adelaja
Use your work as a platform to bring the principles of God to the people
— Sunday Adelaja
Be a source of influence to others
— Sunday Adelaja
Be a history maker
— Sunday Adelaja
Impact people’s lives positively
— Sunday Adelaja
Let your ways and actions be in honor of Christ
— Sunday Adelaja
You can’t change the world if you don’t know the principles of God
— Sunday Adelaja
We shouldn’t use God for our purpose alone but also be instruments of the extension of His Kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
Expand your vision and widen your reasoning
— Sunday Adelaja
Employment is world slavery
— Sunday Adelaja
You need to answer questions on where, when and what to do
— Sunday Adelaja
Go to the root of the problems of people and discover ways to save them
— Sunday Adelaja
Make your life a meaningful one
— Sunday Adelaja
Product must be intentional
— Sunday Adelaja
Joblessness releases you from the world system
— Sunday Adelaja
You can be the solution to the problems of the people
— Sunday Adelaja
Employment should not be your permanent assignment
— Sunday Adelaja
Joblessness gives you life ownership
— Sunday Adelaja
Life becomes a blessing when you discover your calling
— Sunday Adelaja
Don’t try to use God to achieve your purpose. Rather, aim to achieve His
— Sunday Adelaja
We were created to use our lives as an instrument and everything we have to extend God’s Kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
God does not just save you for your personal interest but for you to become a channel for the salvation of others
— Sunday Adelaja
Once you become delivered, you have to find your calling and how to discover God’s purpose for your life
— Sunday Adelaja
Your complaint should be a pointer to what God wants you to do
— Sunday Adelaja
Our purpose as believers is to make impact wherever we find ourselves
— Sunday Adelaja
Don’t wait for people to locate you. Rather, reach out to people and help to bring them to Christ
— Sunday Adelaja
You have to be strategic in your action
— Sunday Adelaja
You have to bring awareness to the society
— Sunday Adelaja
You don’t live until you begin to live for keeping
— Sunday Adelaja
Our identity as Christians is a purpose-driven life
— Sunday Adelaja
Identify darkness in the society and find ways to help illuminate it
— Sunday Adelaja
We were created to be deliverers to the people
— Sunday Adelaja
Our identity should be about what sphere of life we ought to bring to light as Christians
— Sunday Adelaja
Your calling should be your territory
— Sunday Adelaja
Poverty is the origin of invention
— Sunday Adelaja
When you begin to pursue your promised land, you get a lot of prohibitions and temptations
— Sunday Adelaja
The results you produce open doors for greater opportunities
— Sunday Adelaja
Bring real and practical life experience to the people
— Sunday Adelaja
Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive
— Sunday Adelaja
Self-evaluation and assessment should be a major part of our lives as believers
— Sunday Adelaja
A value added life is a fruitful life
— Sunday Adelaja
Understanding and discovering yourself is a critical aspect of your life
— Sunday Adelaja
Life’s product should be made intentionally and consciously
— Sunday Adelaja
Ultimately, we are all dead men - we only become born again after we have discovered our purpose, a reason to live.
— Kabelo Mabona
But whatever it is, if it doesn't give you strength from rendering its service it's not your purpose.
— Kabelo Mabona
When people reject you, don't be discouraged, because you can still fulfill your God given purpose without them. Remember that your destiny is not tied to any human being, but designed specially for you, by your Creator.
— Gift Gugu Mona
You will have to defy the odds, for you to be extraordinary.
— Gift Gugu Mona
You will have to defy the odds, for you to become extraordinary.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Your spiritual and physical growth depends mainly on your time management and personal relationship with God
— Sunday Adelaja
Be disciplined and effective in your relationship with God
— Sunday Adelaja
Be optimistic and don’t ever get discouraged or give up no matter how vain it may seem initially
— Sunday Adelaja
He thought how silly it was that he believed in something so arbitrary. He foolishly believed he had a purpose, that he was destined for something better.Now he had to live with the fact that he was just a lonely boy with no identity at all.And he had made a lot of terrible mistakes.
— Kris Noel
Employment will fail you someday
— Sunday Adelaja
Your calling can never fail you
— Sunday Adelaja
Never get discouraged because you got fired
— Sunday Adelaja
Only your calling can give you fulfillment
— Sunday Adelaja
Productivity is the essence of life
— Sunday Adelaja
A person achieves enlightenment only through a purposeful engagement with life and by resolutely searching for truth and shedding artifices.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Opportunities in life are meant to be utilized and invested in
— Sunday Adelaja
We were built differently. Locate your own uniqueness
— Sunday Adelaja
Until you take time to discover yourself, you never know what you can achieve or how far you can go
— Sunday Adelaja
Leaders are not born, but made as a result of hard work
— Sunday Adelaja
Your calling is your life assignment
— Sunday Adelaja
Your calling is you unique area of expertise
— Sunday Adelaja
You can only be fulfilled and accomplished in life when you effectively maximize yourself
— Sunday Adelaja
Don’t be too comfortable with employment discover yourself and see what you can achieve for yourself 
— Sunday Adelaja
Time is a running factor; once it goes, it cannot be reclaimed
— Sunday Adelaja
Don’t procrastinate, start building yourself now!
— Sunday Adelaja
A purposeless and goalless life is meaningless
— Sunday Adelaja
To be fruitful and productive is to invest in time
— Sunday Adelaja
Reveal God to the people and teach them His ways
— Sunday Adelaja
Be proactive
— Sunday Adelaja
A life without purpose is meaningless
— Sunday Adelaja
Locate your own territory and help others achieve theirs
— Sunday Adelaja
Fulfillment is the essence of our existence
— Sunday Adelaja
Don’t just save yourself alone, also bring salvation the people around you
— Sunday Adelaja
Maximize all your gifts and potentials
— Sunday Adelaja
Bring relevance to people and help them achieve their goals
— Sunday Adelaja
Don’t be restricted to your comfort zone alone
— Sunday Adelaja
Diminishing returns is the outcome of restriction
— Sunday Adelaja
To be relevant, you need to be purposeful
— Sunday Adelaja
Be innovative and creative
— Sunday Adelaja
Expand and extend yourself to effectively fulfill purpose
— Sunday Adelaja
Bring relevance to the people before teaching them to be believers
— Sunday Adelaja
Find out the needs of the people you are ministering to and help them overcome their fears
— Sunday Adelaja
Living a Christian life is not equivalent to living a religious one
— Sunday Adelaja
Don’t just practice religion, abide by the principles of Christ
— Sunday Adelaja
Practice what you preach and let people learn from you
— Sunday Adelaja
Your goal in life should be to produce concrete product
— Sunday Adelaja
The church is supposed to help the people discover their calling and reveal the Kingdom of God to them
— Sunday Adelaja
Always yearn to be an instrument for the Kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
Life’s opportunities are meant to be utilized and explored
— Sunday Adelaja
God’s greatest investment in our lives is our calling
— Sunday Adelaja
You need to break free from the chain of employment to fully utilize and discover your potential
— Sunday Adelaja
The way we utilize our time as humans determines who we become
— Sunday Adelaja
Wealth is as a result of the value of time
— Sunday Adelaja
Employment leaves you bare and empty
— Sunday Adelaja
You have to be competitive to be relevant
— Sunday Adelaja
Don’t let the things of the world distract you. Focus on your purpose
— Sunday Adelaja
Your calling should be a pointer for your skill development
— Sunday Adelaja
Adapt yourself to the needs of the people
— Sunday Adelaja
Locate the problems in people’s lives with the intention of finding a solution
— Sunday Adelaja
Find the interest of people and help them achieve their calling
— Sunday Adelaja
When you provide things for free to meet their needs and help them discover their skills, they automatically become your family
— Sunday Adelaja
Empower people to achieve their calling
— Sunday Adelaja
The goal of the church is to bring the kingdom answers to the people
— Sunday Adelaja
We are not here to build our empire only but also to help people discover the kingdom of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Every day is exciting when you don’t live your life based on religion alone
— Sunday Adelaja
We should be selfless in our practice as believers
— Sunday Adelaja
We all have the freedom to fulfill our calling
— Sunday Adelaja
As Christians, we should live a Kingdom-driven life
— Sunday Adelaja
Perfect study is the key to being effective in the land of your calling
— Sunday Adelaja
Take principles, not just religion, to people
— Sunday Adelaja
Be flexible and adapt easily to new things
— Sunday Adelaja
To bring relevance to people, you have to be able to speak their language effectively
— Sunday Adelaja
Discovering God is the key to discovering purpose
— Sunday Adelaja
God’s purpose for our lives is our calling
— Sunday Adelaja
Purposefully living a life that glorifies the Kingdom is the essence of our creation
— Sunday Adelaja
Everyone has their divine calling and purpose
— Sunday Adelaja
The needs of the people around you should your utmost priority
— Sunday Adelaja
The desire of the people should be the major instrument used to draw them closer to God
— Sunday Adelaja
Our actions as believers should be extensive and comprehensive
— Sunday Adelaja
You get more reach and influence when you are being productive
— Sunday Adelaja
Spreading the Word of Christ and the Kingdom should be our goal as believers
— Sunday Adelaja
Change the value system of the people you are ministering to
— Sunday Adelaja
Teach the people with love and help them abide to biblical principles
— Sunday Adelaja
Teach them to understand biblical principles before converting them
— Sunday Adelaja
You must be able to communicate properly with the people you want to minister to
— Sunday Adelaja
The purpose of the church is outreach
— Sunday Adelaja
Your life as a Christian must be that which glorifies God
— Sunday Adelaja
No one was created in vain
— Sunday Adelaja
Develop solutions using biblical principles to help solve the problems of the people
— Sunday Adelaja
To fully carry out your purpose as believers, you have to discover where the people you want to minister to are
— Sunday Adelaja
A mapping of discovery should be carried out
— Sunday Adelaja
The idea is to change the nature and value system of the nation as whole
— Sunday Adelaja
Never do anything local or insignificant
— Sunday Adelaja
Our goal as believers is to teach people to observe the principles of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Demonstrate love to the people first, and then teach them to observe biblical principles
— Sunday Adelaja
Do not wait for the government to provide solutions to the people when you can be their answer
— Sunday Adelaja
The main purpose of a church is to bring relevance to people and make sure everyone discovers their calling
— Sunday Adelaja
Dedicate your life to delivering people and teaching them the ways of Christ
— Sunday Adelaja
Don’t limit yourself, discover new areas of expertise
— Sunday Adelaja
To lose time is to lose life
— Sunday Adelaja
For every day spent at a job, you empty your life
— Sunday Adelaja
A job is a contract whereby you sell out a bit of your life daily
— Sunday Adelaja
We were created to work (not have jobs) for a living
— Sunday Adelaja
When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself
— Sunday Adelaja
Employment bargains your life and time for a piece of currency
— Sunday Adelaja
Employment stereotypes you
— Sunday Adelaja
Giving a piece of your life daily through employment makes you empty
— Sunday Adelaja
Time is the material from which life is made
— Sunday Adelaja
We were created to be productive
— Sunday Adelaja
Losing your job releases you from the contract of giving a piece of your life daily
— Sunday Adelaja