Quotes About Purpose

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born an the day you find out why.

The Character of Man Concerning Man—he is too large a subject to be treated as a whole; so I will merely discuss a detail or two of him at this time. I desire to contemplate him from this point of view—this premiss: that he was not made for any useful purpose, for the reason that he hasn't served any; that he was most likely not even made intentionally; and that his working himself up out of the oyster bed to his present position was probably

Los dos días más importantes de tu vida son el día en que naces y el día en que descubres para qué

Can any plausible excuse be furnished for the crime of creating the human race?

Cele mai importante dou? zile din viaÈ›a ta sunt ziua în care te-ai n?scut È™i cea în care afli de ce.

To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the 'what is next' of our lives. Without dreams and goals, there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

God Almighty made us all, and some He gives eyes that's blind, and some He gives eyes that can see, and I reckon it ain't none of our lookout what He done it for; it's all right, or He'd 'a' fixed it some other way.

Eleinte nem tudtam rájönni, hogy miért vagyok, de most már azt hiszem, azért, hogy kikutassam ennek a csodálatos világnak a titkait, hogy boldog legyek és hálát adjak a TeremtÅ'nek azért, mert létrehozta. Azt hiszem, még sokat kell tanulnom – remélem.

For when a man's soul is starving, what does he care for meat and roof so he can but get that nobler hunger fed?

appeared in any form. In it my purpose has been to present

Without dreams and goals there is no living, merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

Short time here, long time gone. The reason to try to be good, smart, kind, and on the side of angels is because it's more fun and because there really aren't any angels.

Even a wasted life stands as an important example and therefore can never be useless.

Stars to live by. Stars to steer by. Stars to die by.

Symbols shmimbols. Sure they're important but... Well look at Ahab's whale. Now there's a great symbol. Some say it stands for god, meaning, and purpose. Others say it stands for purposelessness and the void. But what we sometimes forget is that Ahab's whale was also just a whale.

Find your own words; I have no more; or plenty more but why? and all to tell—what?

Perhaps when I'm finished I'll remember what I'd hoped to say in the first place.

Why can't the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn't care, I finally answer, and I know I'm right. It's like I've been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.

Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.

Ed? Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. There's only one thing I want. What's that, Ritchie? His answer is simple. To want.

you need life in your life.

Make sure you live,' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?

And you're Cameron Wolfe. That' gotta start meaning somethin' boy. That's gotta start churnin' inside us, making us wanna be someone for those names, and not just another couple of guys who amounted to nothin' but what people said we would. No way. We're getting' out of that. We have to. We're gonna crawl and moan and fight and bite and bark at anything that gets in our way or tries to hunt us down and shoot us. All right?