Quotes About Purpose

I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be

If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move beyond the surface of things, to understand - and you say, No, maybe not... What then? How do you explain the rest of your life to yourself? How do you pass the time until you die? Do you substitute for that an interest in what - eating? Do you spend the next sixty years trying to be fascinated by the act of breathing?

Welchen Sinn hatte es überhaupt, durch das Leben zu hetzen, wenn am Ende niemand auf einen wartete?

All of you want to question everything. Is there any more pointless way of wasting away your life than searching for answers that will bring you nothing

But let me say this again: I'm not mad. Killing is my job. Not my calling

Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.

Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.

Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it.

If the past can't be changed, and the future's already written; what's the point in living?

The purpose of Life is a simple task which is simply to worship god, however the journey of life is hard on this earth. The individuals who completes this simple goal with dignity, patience and love is a true winner.

Mi sebi rado postavljamo metafizi?ka pitanja o svijetu, životu i ?ovjeku. A trebali bismo iznova i stalno pitati: zašto s tolikim naporom i mukom živimo, kad znamo da ?emo ovdje biti samo jednom i kad imamo tako kratko i neponovljivo vrijeme u ovom neopisivo lijepom svijetu?

Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?

If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

How intensely do I want to exist?

You'll soon learn most of our stories are quite the same, James. I'm sure you'll find all of us are either running away from or running to something.

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

What can I do? I have no talents. I refuse to cripple myself for ninety roubles... Well, all right, so I'll eat two thousand hamburgers in my lifetime. Wear out twenty-five dark-grey suits. Leaf through seven hundred issues of the local newspaper. And die without scratching the earth's surface. Is that it? ... I'd rather live only a minute, but live it right! (Fred Kolesnikov)

Abans que nasquem, hi ha un abisme. Després de morts, hi ha un abisme. La mostra vida és només un gra de sorra a l'oceà indiferent de la infinitud. Intentem almenys que aquest instant no s'enfosqueixi de tristor i d'avorriment! Intentem deixar una esgarrapada a l'escorça terrestre." La maleta, Sergei Dovlatov

What if every time you fought for love, you were fighting for the whole world? For the whole world - not against the whole world.

qué momento empezó a tener sentido haber nacido, para que uno sienta el deseo de hacer nacer?).

Je ne me vois pas en train de travailler quelque part, rien que pour travailler. Pour quoi faire ? Si c'est pour gagner de l'argent, n'importe quel travail est bon.

La verdad, hablaban sólo por cumplir un ritual, con un propósito único, no decir nada.