Quotes About Purpose

The good Lord wouldn't have put it in your heart if it wasn't right.

The very idea of schooling used to be about learning so that we could improve our lives and the world. But a perfect world needs no improvement. Like most everything else we do, grade school through the highest of universities, is just a way to keep us busy.

I ain't no runaway, I'm a run-to.

He had to live long enough to forge a purpose greater than that.

Do not give in to the urge to extinguish oneself in the waters of the world, but instead be a light above those waters to help guide the way.

How strange to actually have to see the path of your journey in order to make it.

Thou shalt kill.

Kind of an early warning system originally developed to fight terrorism, but isn't it nice to know we can now use it for civilian purposes?

Maybe that had been his plan all along, or maybe not. But one thing's for certain- now that I had said it, it was his plan.

1) YOU ARRIVED HERE BY NECESSITY. YOU STAY HERE BY CHOICE.

It felt... momentous, he said. It felt important. It felt - I felt - filled with wonderful purpose. I want to feel that again.

I'm just saying that if we stopped fighting for lost causes, where would we be?

He would be provided for even if he made no discernible contribution to the world - and right now he had no desiire to contribute anything to the world but his bodily waste.

Les diría que si están huyendo, que huyan, porque tienen todo el derecho a intentar sobrevivir. Pero que no importa lo que les suceda, porque su vida tendrá sentido.

As scythes, it is not what we want that matters—all that matters is what the world needs us to be. As your High Blade, I will hold us to the highest ideals, so that we can be proud of who, and what, we are.

I know this sounds weird...but it's like we're all a part of this machine. The things we've done—the things we still have to do—they're all connected.

did he want her to join him in his mission of ending unworthy scythes? Would she do it if he asked? Definitely not. Probably not. Maybe not.

If a baby was going to be so unloved, why would God want it brought into the world?

mas a ilusão de propósito é fundamental para uma população bem ajustada.

I remember thinking, if a baby was going to be so unloved, why would God want it brought into the world?

very few of the jobs are necessary, since they could all be accomplished by machines—but the illusion of purpose is critical to a well-adjusted population.

very few of the jobs are necessary, since they could all be accomplished by machines—but the illusion of purpose is critical to a well-adjusted population. —The Thunderhead

Agreed, he says. But once your purpose was served, shouldn't your life be your own? Miracles are the property of God, she answers. No, he says, miracles are gifts from God. To call them his property insults the spirit in which they are given.

Tyger Salazar was going places! After a life of wasting time and taking up space, he was now professionally paid to waste time and take up space!