Quotes About Purpose

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

With your goal you make the one.

When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open.

God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?

A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?

The universe itself can never be the limit of our satisfaction. That is why the miser gathers more and more money, that is why the robber robs, the sinner sins, that is why you are learning philosophy. All have one purpose. There is no other purpose in life, save to reach this freedom. Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

Each is great in his own place, but the duty of one is not the duty of the other.

but what they do without knowing it, do knowingly.

By all means make a start — even if it's for the wrong reason.

if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.

Thinking about sense-objects Will attach you to sense-objects; Grow attached, and you become addicted; Thwart your addiction, it turns to anger; Be angry, and you confuse your mind; Confuse your mind, you forget the lesson of experience; Forget experience, you lose discrimination; Lose discrimination, and you miss life's only purpose.

The means should be loved and cared for as if it were the end itself.

Relationships are the Ends, Not the Means.

Love is the highest and best use of a life.

But what is the soul? Some say it is the self, the "I" that inhabits the body; without the soul, the body is like a lightbulb with no electricity. But it is more than the engine of life, say others; it is what gives life meaning and purpose. Soul is the fingerprint of God.

Es ist normal geworden, keine Wurzeln mehr zu haben. Nicht in Orten, nicht in Familien. Kein Grund, sich zu beklagen. Dafür leben wir heute länger. Wenn auch nicht ganz klar ist, wozu. (Der Mann schläft. Seite 74)