Quotes About Purpose

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides.

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

What keeps you going isn't just some fine destination but the road you're on and the fact you know how to drive.

My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what to hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.

The purpose of art is to elevate the spirit or to pay a surgeon's bill. Or both. It can help a person remember or forget.

All that hurry can blur the truth that life is a zero-sum equation. Every minute I save will get used on something else, possibly no more sublime than staring at the newel post trying to remember what I just ran upstairs for.

I loved the time spent with him, but felt in some other chamber of my heart that it was time wasted. That I ought to be doing something else while there was time.

In the scullery kitchens and probably the salt mines of this world, many a child is not so much raised as hammered into shape, Artie. To be of use. Surviving by the grace of utility alone.

We newspaper readers all have our pet vexations. Somewhere in one of those sections is the column we anxiously turn to for the sole purpose of disagreeing with the columnist. Volubly.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, "What life can I live that will let me breathe in & out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?

Jazon and Mical. What kind of mother misspelled her kids' names on purpose?

He thinks people's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.

He thinks people's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

To hear you tell it, you'd think man was only put on this earth to keep urinals from going to waste.

Boys aren't a thing but just little men still learning what to aim at.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

You can get to a point of needing to make the loudest possible noise just to see if you are still alive.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact same way they wish for it to be altered.

That is so. Science directs us to study our maker's creation, but his thoughts on its purpose are only his to reveal.