Quotes About Purpose

Where are we going? I asked I don't know, he said. Just driving. But this road doesn't go anywhere, I told him. That doesn't matter. What does? I asked, after a little while. Just that we're on it, dude, he said.

And later my macabre joy sours and I'm weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing, I just want to be loved, cursing the earth and everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, morals, compromises, knowledge, unity, prayer - all of it was wrong, without any final purpose.

where are we going?' I asked. 'I don't know,' he said. 'just driving.' 'But this road doesn't go anywhere,' I told him. 'That doesn't matter.' 'What does?' I asked, after a little while. 'Just that we're on it, dude,' he said.

And later my macabre joy sours and I'm weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing "I just want to be loved," cursing the earth and everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, morals, compromises, knowledge, unity, prayer—all of it was wrong, without any final purpose. All it came down to was: die or adapt.

Did I do this on purpose? What do you think? Or did I do this accidentally?

I'm weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing I just want to be loved, cursing the earth and everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, morals, compromises, knowledge, unity, prayer – all of it was wrong, without any final purpose. All it came down to was: die or adapt.

there's no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.

Where are we going? I asked I don't know he said. Just driving. But this road doesn't go anywhere, I told him That doesn't matter." What does? I asked, after a little while. Just that we're on it, dude,' he said.

Where are we going? I asked him. I don't know, he said. Just driving. But this road does not go anywhere, I told him. That doesn't matter. What does? I asked, after a little while. Just that we're on it, dude, he said.

To everyone, Jesus issues an invitation to abandon the story they will lose themselves in, and instead, to enter the story they will find themselves in.

In other words, when the community of faith gathers, its purpose is to equip its members for a life of love and good deeds when the community scatters.

Cause-effect looks back and asks, "What caused this?" Purpose looks up or ahead, and asks, "And why was it caused? For what purpose? For what end?" Cause-effect looks for a force pushing events from behind. Purpose looks for a pattern or design or intention or meaning pulling events from ahead, guiding them from above, enriching them from within.

Yet "to love" can also mean "to will goodness to something." In this sense it can be fittingly ascribed to God since he freely does this insofar as he brings about the existence of anything.

Government, if it has any purpose at all (and many libertarians doubt it does), should be restricted to the protection of its citizens' persons and property against direct violence and theft.

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.

In the end, during our brief moment in the sun, we are tasked with the noble charge of finding our own meaning.

As our trek across time will make clear, life is likely transient, and all understanding that arose with its emergence will almost certainly dissolve with its conclusion. Nothing is permanent. Nothing is absolute. And so, in the search for value and purpose, the only insights of relevance, the only answers of significance, are those of our own making. In the end, during our brief moment in the sun, we are tasked with the noble charge of finding our own meaning.

We are guided by laws that operate without concern for destination, and yet we constantly ask ourselves where we are headed. We are shaped by laws that seem not to require an underlying rationale, and yet we persistently seek meaning and purpose.

Not all accidents are what they seem. Victims do no even know why they have been chosen.

Anyone who searches for the meaning of life is on a fool's journey. Human life has no redeeming purpose or value. —the cymek GENERAL AGAMEMNON, A Time for Titans

Eventually, if Quinto Paolo succeeded in his mission, at least Vorian Atreides would understand. Xavier asked for nothing more.

La pregunta definitiva: ¿por qué existe la vida? La respuesta: por el puro placer de vivir.

Why look for meaning where there is none? Would you follow a path you know leads nowhere? —Query of the Mentat School

To keep from dying is not the same as "to live." —Bene Gesserit Saying