Quotes About Purpose

Can't they comprehend that not ever'thing's done for a paycheck? That sometimes you just make a thing 'cause you wanna see how it'll turn out, 'cause you have a feeling in your gut that it oughta be made?

CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.

It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.

Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it: we may seize the moment, toss it around while the moments pass, a short dash here, an exploration there, but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact --

I burn with no causes

That's it then, is it? What was it all about? When did it begin?

If you act only on what you should do without heed for what you want to do, you're nothing more than a machine, a phenomenon.

Alles ist zu einem einzigen, riesigen Wettbewerb mutiert, der sich Leben nennt, bei dem niemand weiß, was der Preis ist, aber jeder weiß, dass er gewinnen will

Whatever impresses you attracts you. Whatever you purse becomes your purpose.

He's looking for people who are hot after His heart. He wants a Church of Davids who are after His own heart3 (not just His hand). You can seek for His blessing and play with His toys, or you can say, "No, Daddy, I don't just want the blessings; I want You. I want You to come close. I want You to touch my eyes, touch my heart, touch my ears, and change me, Lord. I'm tired of me the way I am, because if I can change, then the cities can change too.

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

this is the it you've been looking for

A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity.

They did not believe death was accidental—life might be, but death was deliberate.

She wants you here as much as I do. For her it is to save her life. For me it is to have one.

Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.

Somewhere inside you is that free person I'm talking about. Locate her and let her do some good in the world

Personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice, is more than a barren life, it's a trivial one.

Fire. How quick. How purposefully it ate whatever had been built, what had been life. Cleansing somehow and scandalous in beauty.

Other than outwitting evil, waging war against the unworthy, there seems to be nothing for the inhabitants of paradise to do.

No creían que la muerte fuese un accidente: la vida tal vez lo fuera, pero la muerte era deliberada.