Quotes About Purpose

Everybody has one thing they keep, one thing that matters to them more than anything else. Life is just a process of elimination, figuring out what that one thing is. You may figure it out right at the end, just as you're losing it. If you're lucky.

I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.

You have to trust in who and what you are. You have to trust in the dream you have been given. You have believed in it until now, haven't you?

Most of all, he needed a challenge—because that was what gave life meaning.

Commitment is a journey that works best when each step taken is carefully measured.

Centuries of enlightenment and progress vanished virtually overnight because Men couldn't find a way to use it wisely and purposefully.

All those men had died for some senseless reason, died perhaps without ever knowing exactly what they had fought to accomplish.

We use so many words to describe what happens to us, and it all amounts to the same thing. We live out our lives as we are meant to live them—with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is as plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forger that the answers are mostly inside yourselves. He paused anew. Cats are not included in that analysis. Cats don't waste time wondering about such things. Cats just get on with the business of living.

you can be homeless in your heart, too. You can be empty inside yourself because you have no spiritual center. You can wander through life without any real sense of who you are or where you belong. You can exist without purpose or cause.

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is as plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are mostly inside yourselves. He paused anew. Cats are not included in that analysis. Cats don't waste time wondering about such things. Cats just get on with the business of living.

Life is a risk. Life is precious. But life has to be lived in a way that matters.

Life is for the living, and the living have an obligation to carry on.

always know what that reason is.

Everything happens for a reason, though we might not

If you want to worry about something, I don't think it should be about whether you owe your existence to God or the Word or whoever. I think you should worry about what's expected of you now that you're here and how you're going to keep from being a major disappointment.

We are built to pursue happiness as a tool to replicate our genes.

It is conceivable that not knowing the meaning of life is part of the meaning of life, rather as not counting how many words I am uttering when I give an after-dinner speech helps me to give an after-dinner speech. Perhaps life is kept going by our ignorance of its fundamental meaning, as capitalism for Karl Marx

Hostility to theory usually means an opposition to other people's theories and an oblivion of one's own. One purpose of this book is to lift that repression and allow us to remember.

The work of art had nothing as vulgar as a social purpose.

It's easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth.

A true Seeker, one who can make a difference, must show himself to be a Seeker. The wizard doesn't point to someone and say, 'Here is the Sword of Truth, you will be the Seeker.' He doesn't really have a choice in the matter.

She understood, now, why life had seemed so empty, so pointless: she herself had rendered it so in refusing to think.

Truth is hard to sell; it gives no sense of purpose. It is simply truth.