Quotes About Purpose

A ciência pode perfeitamente nos dizer de que maneira as causas produzem seus efeitos, não que finalidades devem ser buscadas; ela observa, explica, mas não julga: o bem e o mal não existem para ela.

Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.

One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat... What then was music created for? Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves? I think I know.

Believer me, life can be much simpler. And you'll discover an energy for the things in life that really matter.

Give yourself time for those things that are most important in your life!

Resolve to make every day count. Be a woman of action. Treat each day as precious.

If you don't have a target-you'll never know if you have a hit or a miss!

Never have an Ordinary Day.

Plan your action, keep it simple, and get into motion.

So instead of getting to Heaven, at last—I'm going, all along.

The first question to ask about your next meeting; is this meeting really necessary?

Books are for various purposes—tracts to teach, almanacs to sell, poetry to make pastry, but this is the rarest sort of book, a book to read.

To exert itself, the will, like the arm, requires to have an obvious and a definite resistance, to know where it is, why it is, whence it comes, and whither it goes.

Hope is the thing which makes a life meaningful.

When you have a child, you get a surge of ambition, or a surge of hormonal urgency, to get something done, something worthy of your new station in life.

Spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It's a mistake of emphasis.

If you don't know where you want to go, I suppose any path will get you there.

We shall, I think, be forced to admit that all creeds which refuse to see an intelligent purpose behind the unthinking powers of material nature are intrinsically incoherent.

Beauty must be more than an accident.

Were the universe, for example, like a huge impervious reservoir of some simple gas, where nothing rested but nothing changed, where amid all the hurry and bustle of colliding atoms no new thing was ever born, nor any old thing ever perished, we might find in it admirable illustrations of natural law, but no hints, so far as I can see, of purpose or design. Nor is the case really mended if, instead of thus artificially simplifying inanimate nature, we consider it in all its concrete complexity.