Quotes About Purpose

is necessary to lift your eyes above the horizon, to establish a transcendent goal, if you wish to cease being a puppet, under the control of things you do not understand and perhaps do not want to understand. Then

It is necessary to lift your eyes above the horizon, to establish a transcendent goal, if you wish to cease being a puppet, under the control of things you do not understand and perhaps do not want to understand.

nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, "He whose life has a why can bear almost any how."61

Standing up means voluntarily accepting the burden of Being.

You positively need to be occupied with something weighty, deep, profound, and difficult.

You have to suffer because things are meaningless but that's a small price to pay for being able to be completely useless

The sense of meaning is an indicator that you are on that path.

He who contrives, defeats his purpose; and he who is grasping, loses. The sage does not contrive to win, and therefore is not defeated; he is not grasping, so does not lose.

DO NOT DO WHAT YOU HATE

You cannot aim yourself at anything if you are completely undisciplined and untutored. You will not know what to target, and you won't fly straight, even if you somehow get your aim right. And then you will conclude, "There is nothing to aim for." And then you will be lost.

To retool, to take stock, to aim somewhere better, you have to think it through, bottom to top. You have to scour your psyche. You have to clean the damned thing up. And you must be cautious, because making your life better means adopting a lot of responsibility, and that takes more effort and care than living stupidly in pain and remaining arrogant, deceitful and resentful.

the notion that it was good, well even if you don't believe that because maybe it's not as good as it could be. I would say it's incumbent on you as someone who participates in the process of furthering creation to act as if it could be good at least and to further that with all of your efforts. Partly because what the hell else do you have to do that could possible be better than that, that could possible justify your existence more than that?

have meaning in your life is better than to have what you want, because you may neither know what you want, nor what you truly need. Meaning is something that comes upon you, of its own accord. You can set up the preconditions, you can follow meaning, when it manifests itself, but you cannot simply produce it, as an act of will.

Ambition is often—and often purposefully—misidentified with the desire for power,

We must bear a load, to justify our miserable existence.

Stretching yourself beyond the boundaries of your current self requires carefully choosing and then pursuing ideals: ideals that are up there, above you, superior to you—and that you can't always be sure you will reach. But if it's uncertain that our ideals are attainable, why do we bother reaching in the first place? Because if you don't reach for them, it is certain you will never feel that your life has meaning.

Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.

I'd like to think that we're not just sacks of biological goo careening through a random universe.

We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate

Life can be meaningful enough to justify its suffering

I kept having those "What's the point of ...?" moments, but plugged away at life pretty consistently, anyway.

Siempre habrá una paz, pero no tengo más que una vida.

Güzel Kavga S?rf kavga etmiÅŸ olmak için, birine sald?rman?n, yumruklaÅŸarak toz toprak içinde yuvarlanman?n fiziksel hazz?n? yaÅŸamak amac?yla sebepsizce dövüÅŸüyorlard?. (...) Kavga etmek t?pk? ÅŸark? söylemek gibi, hikaye dinlemek, yalan söylemek, gece r?ht?mda oturup denizi düÅŸünmek gibi iyi geliyordu insana.

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.