Quotes About Purpose

Many young people strangely boast of being motivated; they re-request apprenticeships and permanent training. It's up to them to discover what they're being made to serve, just as their elders discovered, not without difficulty, the telos of the disciplines. The coils of a serpent are even more complex that the burrows of a molehill.

Placing oneself in a position where one is thus traversed, broken, fucked by the socius, looking for the right place where, according to the aims and interests assigned to us, one feels something moving that has neither an interest nor a purpose.

I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.

Everywhere I go is the river. I'm following it or it's following me. I know, suddenly, what I must do.

I just want to live until I can't anymore.

Me gustan las reglas que tienen sentido, no las reglas sin lógica

Your grandparents always told me, Make a useful life. I don't feel I've really done that, but I can make a useful death... - My life has been determined so much by accidents, it seems nice that now an accident on purpose will make things right again. A happy accident.

My morning breath warmed the pillow, and I changed the subject in my mind. Today was not a day for second-guessing or regret, it was a day for doing.

But in a way, Libby, this presents you with a really interesting new phase of your life. I mean, what do you want to be when you grow up?" I could tell this was supposed to be charming, but it brought a burst of rage up in me. I didn't want to be anything, that was the fucking point.

People want passion. People want a sense of purpose.

Não me sinto uma pessoa: sou algo a ser carregado e descarregado, como um sofá ou um cuco.

People want passion. People want a sense of purpose. And when they get those things, then they come back to you because you predicted their future, and it was good.

see a 3 and an 8. (He said.) And then work

Without desire there is no life. Everything will stand still. Become emptiness. In fact sir, be dead.

We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.

That's the whole reason we're here, isn't it?" she persists. "Not to swim in their pool, and sleep in their beds, and eat their Tater Tots. Who invented those things, anyway? Pure starch and oil!" "Hey," I shoot back, "you can talk trash about me, but lay off my Tater Tots!

What purpose in nature is served by parsley, when it has no taste and no nutritional value; and

People whose minds are not strengthened for endurance are by no means always unintelligent. They simply have never stopped to think that the use of the mind for the purpose of growth is a necessary part of a God-pleasing lifestyle.

We will know that we have learned this significant principle when we come to the point at which the development and maintenance of a strong inner world becomes the most important single function of our existences.

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering. If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes.

Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.

Is it not better for a man never to have been born? Certaintly not The response was brisk. Just to be able to study the sky is reason enough to be alive. Unfortunately, I can't see the sky. Then listen to music.