Quotes about Purpose
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what to hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
— Barbara Kingsolver
In the scullery kitchens and probably the salt mines of this world, many a child is not so much raised as hammered into shape, Artie. To be of use. Surviving by the grace of utility alone.
— Barbara Kingsolver
He thinks people's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact same way they wish for it to be altered.
— Barbara Kingsolver
That is so. Science directs us to study our maker's creation, but his thoughts on its purpose are only his to reveal.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
— Stephen Covey
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
— Stephen Covey
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
— Stephen Covey