Quotes About Purpose

Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.

What dream, what hope, what despair drives us to the things we do, just to desert us when the deed is done? What hollow things are they, motive and reason, born at night to fade so quickly in the sunlight of consequence? What we do in life lives on inside us, long after ambition and fear lie frosted and opaqued on forgotten shores. What we do in life, more than what we think or say, is what we are.

Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion.

We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast.

The wrong thing, for the right reasons.

Žmogus, kuris niekur neskuba, niekur greitai nepatenka.

Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end.

Black money runs through the fingers faster than legal, hard-earned money. If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.

His most striking feature was his nose, an instrument so huge and magnificently pendulous that is seemed designed for some purpose altogether more grand than merely inhaling air and fragrances.

Listen, where are you going?' 'What?' 'Where

The simple fact is that fighting to save a life is a better and more enduring reason than fighting to end one.

La cosa sbagliata... per un motivo giusto.

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Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going?

There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment. I

The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.

The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get—who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.

There are only three big questions?' I asked, unable to keep the sarcasm from my voice. 'Yes,' he answered equably. 'Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? Those are the three big questions. And if you love him, Lin, my young friend, if you love him, he will tell you these secrets, as well.

The wonder and sustaining solace of it all is that were not alone: we're never alone if we live and we journey onward to new cities, new adventures and new dreams in the search for meaning, and purpose, and love.

I was thinking about another kind of river, one that runs through every one of us, no matter where we come from, all over the world. It's the river of the heart, and the heart's desire. It's the pure, essential truth of what each one of us is, and can achieve. All

Civilization is submission, in a good cause.

If you're not living for something, you're dying for nothing!

There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment.