Quotes About Purpose

What are we, really; and how do we come to be, and for what purpose are we placed here, and what becomes of us when we depart? Above all, what is the origin of that strange faculty in us which we call conscience? Why do we have a sense of duty, and what is the basis of its validity, and of our assurance concerning it? If we are as the beasts of the field that perish, why do we owe any obligation to the world, or to our fellow men, or to ourselves?

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious. And I am grateful.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

How terrible it would have been, at this time, to be without it; to have died among the Tulsis, amid the squalour of that large, disintegrating and indifferent family; to have left Shama and the children among them, in one room; or worse, to have lived without even attempting to lay claim to one's portion of the earth; to have lived and died as one had been born, unnecessary and unaccommodated.

But the people I found, the people I was attracted to were not unlike myself. They were trying to find order in their world, looking for the centre..

Boy, the only thing to make is the thing without a name.

Untouched by imagination or intellect, great actions become mere activity; it

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

I reckon most people that chase money only do it because they don't really know what it is they do want.

Where God has gifted us, there is a niche for us to fill. Let's be faithful in looking for it.

Lock in on the eyes--not the stomach, or the thighs--and make a vow to yourself to define existence by generating thoughts, feelings, and actions that increase the amount of joy and happiness in your head, your home, and the world.

That same sense of direction that animals possess perfectly also awakens in man under the right conditions.

Each wave breaking against the cliff would believe it was dying for the good of the sea; it would never occur to it that, like thousands of waves before and after, it had only been brought into being by the wind.

Many people have dreams. However, a vision is a dream with a plan:

Goals without routines are wishes; routines without goals are aimless.

las metas sin rutinas son deseos, las rutinas sin metas no tienen sentido.

Frankl approvingly quotes the words of Nietzsche: He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.

the point is never what we may expect from life but rather what life expects from us

W naszych rozwa?aniach wyszli?my od podstawowego fenomenologicznego faktu, a mianowicie tego, i? cz?owiek jest bytem ?wiadomym i odpowiedzialnym, a jego ukoronowaniem jest synteza obu tych cech, to jest ?wiadomo?? w?asnej odpowiedzialno?ci.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.