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Quotes About Purpose

In the midst of chaos and death, a new family had been forged. One that as chosen as opposed to an accident of biology—and for that reason, more abiding and enduring.
~ J.R. Ward
DEDICATED TO YOU: You, a brother indeed. I think you are right where you are supposed to be-and I'm not the only one who feels that way.
~ J.R.Ward
people didn't fight for grand causes or great purposes, but for the closest and most personal of reasons. They might say the fought for high ideals, but in practice they fought for the comrades beside them and their loved ones at home.
~ Jack Campbell
the universe is not plagued by intentions and purpose.
~ Jack Hitt
I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
~ Jack Kerouac
No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
~ Jack Kerouac
I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.
~ Jack Kerouac
You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and how much money or fun you can get out of people and then you just throw them aside. Not only that but you're silly about it. It never occurs to you that life is serious and that there are people trying to make something decent out of it instead of just goofing all the time.
~ Jack Kerouac
You guys are going somewhere or just going?
~ Jack Kerouac
Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.
~ Jack Kerouac
I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.
~ Jack Kerouac
Every night I still ask the Lord, Why? and havent heard a decent answer yet
~ Jack Kerouac
and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
~ Jack Kerouac
In a sense, I'm mad (and withdrawn from life) while they're sane, human, normal - but in another sense, I speak from the depths of a vision of truth when I say that this continual jockeying for position is the enemy of life in itself. It may be life, 'life is like that,' it may be human and true, but it's also the death-part of life, and our purpose after all is to live and be true. We'll see.
~ Jack Kerouac
You boys going to get somewhere, or just going? We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question.
~ Jack Kerouac
I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest of my life to do it
~ Jack Kerouac
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain." Jack Kerouac
~ Jack Kerouac
I am an appearance The world is an appearance The bread I eat is an appearance All wish't forth from Mind Essence Due to Ignorance-- I don't have to exist I don't exist, I do exist-- Who cares? For the purposes of this world Do nothing Or do everything anyhow.
~ Jack Kerouac
Se non scrivo quello che vedo effettivamente accadere su questo globo infelice racchiuso nei contorni del mio teschio penserò che il povero Dio mi abbia mandato sulla terra per niente.
~ Jack Kerouac
This can't go on all the time- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.
~ Jack Kerouac
Dobbiamo andare e non fermarci finché non siamo arrivati. - Dove andiamo? - Non lo so, ma dobbiamo andare.
~ Jack Kerouac
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
~ Jack Kerouac
We live to long, so long I will
~ Jack Kerouac
Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
~ Jack Kerouac