Quotes About Purpose

One of Allen Ginsberg's T-shirts said, "Well, while I'm here, I'll do the work. And what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

The most important thing to him is his drive, his purpose, his desire to give meaning to the experience of dying.

Art is always tempted to glory in itself, and nearly every form of art has been used to communicate values that are contrary to Scripture. Art is as fallen as any other aspect of human existence. This fallenness perverts the arts against fulfilling their original purpose and prevents us from embracing them uncritically.

You see, some of us just find our niches somehow.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

I've come to believe that in life it's best to live for a purpose greater than oneself.

I can't help thinking that life isn't just about working out who we are and what makes us tick, it's also about understanding why we aren't where we ever expected to be.

What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They are to be happy in: Where can we live but days? Ah, solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor In their long coats Running over the fields.

Most things are never meant. - Going, Going

The faith instinct…simply cannot be killed. That 'simply cannot' means that we simply cannot not live—cannot live as if life were meaningless, without purpose; as if life were merely material or mechanical or not spiritual. Such an effort in its deadly futility represents a historical ending time, a time just before the faith instinct will show itself again.

Our purpose in life is first to recognize God, then to understand His presence in our lives, and ultimately to achieve unity with His nature.

Our purpose in the world is to gain joy and fulfillment though unity with the Creator. This purpose never changes. It is unaffected by the material conditions of our lives, including the state of our health.

As human beings, we are naturally driven by goals beyond physical satisfaction or mental supremacy to seek a deeper level of meaning and fulfilment.

Sartre intends to convey the view that man first exists without purpose or definition, finds himself in the world and only then, as a reaction to experience, defines the meaning of his life. It

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in," Abraham Lincoln

there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction….Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being who you are." Everything happens for a reason. Everything has a purpose.

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

Love deems this world worth rescuing.

J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.

1 am not "up to" anything, Cousin Edgar.

For me to live is Christ; to die is gain." 1:21