#purpose

Knowing your purpose focuses your life. ↗

— Rick Warren

#life

The quality of life that you have is determined solely by the effort you put into giving your life value, purpose and a reason. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#effort #life #purpose #quality-of-life #reason

God can deliver you so well that some people won’t believe your testimony. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#adversity #battles #come-full-circle-in-life #life-challenges #life-missions

Do it because it's right, not because it's right for your resume. ↗

— Howard Behar

#leadership

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

#indolence #luxury #purpose #utility #life

Helping others in need is not only a responsibility of life; it is what gives meaning to life. ↗

— Mollie Marti

#purpose #walking-with-justice #life

I don't think it's a question of liking or disliking it," Tengo said..."It was the one thing he was best at." "Hmm. I see," Kumi said. She pondered this. "But that might very well be the best way to live your life. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#true-purpose #life

Money as the sole ambition has no value. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#money #purpose-of-life #value #wealth #life

He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory” (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB). ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#bible #plans #purpose #secret #love

...the wind has a purpose - to rattle the window panes, disturb the cat and make me miss you ... ↗

— John Geddes

#missing-you #poetry-quote #purpose #the-wind #love