Quotes About Purpose

unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

I get the blues for him, for me, for all of us: for want of something to do we keep slaying our small dragons as the big one waits.

nothing matters and we know nothing matters and that matters…

Too many writers write for the wrong reasons. They want to get famous or they want to get rich or they want to get laid by the girls with bluebells in their hair... When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing, but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it. When it's stuffed in your ears, nostrils, under your finger nails. It's when there's no hope but that.

My eyes were blue and my shoes were old and nobody loved me. But I had things to do.

To do things, simple things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day … was a man born just to endure those things and then die?

yes, the real miracles are the thousands of tiny people who know exactly what they are doing. I used to look for inspiration in higher places but the higher you go like to Plato or God the less space there is in which to stand.

There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. D. H. Lawrence had known that.

How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?

Get a man who works for nothing and you get a man who just likes to hang around. I

the world was molested with billions of people who had nothing to do with their time except murder it and murder you.

some men never die and some men never live

La gente debe encontrar cosas que hacer mientras espera la muerte.

People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.

Neal would just go on driving, neither grim or happy or sardonic, just there - doing the movements. I understood. it was necessary. it was his bull ring, his racetrack. it was holy and necessary

No estoy metido en ninguna competición con nadie, ni pienso en la inmortalidad; me importa un carajo todo eso. Es la ACCIÓN mientras estás vivo.

From the cubicle of the job to the cubicle of resting and waiting to return to the job. The job is the center. The job is the sun. The job is the mother's breast. To be jobless is the sin; to be lifeless doesn't matter.

You know, sometimes if a man doesn't believe in what he is doing he can do a much more interesting job because he isn't emotionally caught up in his Cause.

Hijo, aire y luz y tiempo y espacio no tienen nada que ver con la creación y no crean nada más que, quizá, una vida más larga para encontrar nuevas excusas para no hacerlo

Existem bilhões de pessoas no mundo que não atingem o sucesso pela criação. Quer me dizer que elas estão mortas? – Sim. – E você tem uma alma? Você é um dos poucos que tem uma alma? – Diria que sim.

The idea, I decided, is not to think. But how do you stop thinking? Why was I chosen to polish this rail? Why couldn't I be inside writing editorials about municipal corruption? Well, it could be worse. I could be in China working a rice paddy.

the jellyfish has a purpose, the hyena, the tick, the rat, the roach each filled with their swollen light. my light is out. who did this to me?

Margulis said, because rival organisms and lack of resources prevent the vast majority of P. vulgaris from reproducing. This is natural selection, Darwin's great insight. All living creatures have the same purpose: to make more of themselves, ensuring their biological future by the only means available. And all living creatures have a maximum reproductive rate: the greatest number of offspring they can generate in a lifetime.

God's will and purpose for this earth is that it be here like it is in heaven. It has to be the will of God because Jesus told His disciples to pray that it would be that way. (Matt. 6:10.)