Quotes About Purpose

As far as he was concerned, he had the three necessary ingredients to happiness: something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.

three rules for happiness. Something to do. Someone to love. And something to look forward to.

Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately, a mess. There are no heroes or villains, no saviors or demons or angels. Only those who have died and those of us who, for whatever reason, have survived. None of this will keep me from believing in God. I believe in Him, I just don't know that I will ever have faith in Him.

But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise. And like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause.

But if you are going to take up a profession – and I cannot see why you should want one at all, now that you have come into your property – surely you can chuse something better than magic! It has no practical application.

Mi sono reso conto che la ricerca della Conoscenza ci ha incoraggiato a pensare alla Casa come se fosse una sorta di enigma da sciogliere, un testo da interpretare, e che se mai scoprissimo la Conoscenza, allora sarebbe come se alla Casa venisse strappato via il valore lasciando soltanto una semplice scenografia. (...) La Casa ha valore in sé perché è la Casa. È sufficiente già di per sé. Non è un mezzo per arrivare a un fine.

an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).

Nothing, I said. It's quiet. It's like? I don't know. It's like falling off a cliff. I laughed. I guess my life will just stop when I get married. It didn't. It wasn't quiet either. And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

Just to get through life was no ambition. It was the opposite of ambition.

Luchar por una idea sin tener una idea de uno mismo es una de las cosas más peligrosas que se pueden hacer.

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Cometer errores es natural, irse sin haberlos comprendido hace que se vuelva vano el sentido de una existencia.

Te irritabas enormemente cuando te hacía notar que perder el tiempo no es en absoluto grave. Pero llegaste al máximo de la irritación cuando te dije que la vida no es una carrera, sino un tiro al blanco, lo que importa no es el ahorro de tiempo, sino la capacidad de encontrar una diana.

This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever. In its place is something you have left behind … let it be something good.

I don't know why I'm still here. All right? And I'd just like to figure it out before I go.

What's so ludicrous about Rafael wanting to travel?' 'He has a life here. He's a Bancroft, for God's sake.' 'I believe he thinks he's already explored that aspect of his life to death, Quinlan.

You have to know where you were going in order to get there.

Your life is an occasion - rise to it.

A man is above all his will

To attain the purpose of life, it is necessary to do one's duties, whether one lives in the world or outside it. The path of renunciation and the path of action, though two diverse ways, are equally helpful for attaining self-emancipation. One is the path of sacrifice, the other the path of conquest.

Fortunately Jesus didn't leave [the disciples]-or any of us-without hope or direction. Where we fail, Jesus succeeded. The only One who as able to recognize and follow His purpose from the beginning was Jesus. He alone was able to obey consistently and please God completely. And His divine mission was to make a way for each of us to do the same.