Quotes About Purpose

The air felt different in my lungs. The world no longer looked the same. You change and then you change again. You become a dog, a bird, a plant that always leans to the left. Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it was because he existed, and when I ordered food in the night it was because he existed, and when I wrote my book it was because he existed to read it.

The little boy I watched throwing pebbles into the empty fountain, he wasn't too old to climb trees. You could tell he had too much wisdom for his age. Probably he believed that he wasn't made for this world. I wanted to say to him: If not you, who?

You could tell he had too much wisdom for his age. Probably he believed that he wasn't made for this world. I wanted to say to him: If not you, who?

A place belongs to anyone who has a use for it.

The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find something worth suffering for.

Wir haben die Kunst, damit wir nicht an der Wahrheit zugrunde gehen.

Why? said Zarathustra. Thou askest why? I do not belong to those who may be asked after their Why.

people say, "I didn't ask to be born," I think we did, and that's why we're here. We are here, and we have to do something nurturing that we respect before we go. We must. It is more interesting, more complicated, more intellectually demanding and more morally demanding to love somebody, to take care of somebody, to make one other person feel good.

We look, most humans, for a way to be warm and safe; for a haven for our bodies when, once fire was discovered and clothes invented, when once we understood why the squirrels moved seeds around and what to call the plant the jaguar got giggly off of, when once we no longer worried about being eaten by other mammals or each other we looked for meaning with this life we were given.

Poems are not advertisements braying For the good life They have serious work to do Birthing people burying people Celebrating joy mourning loss

Why would there be a destination when life itself is a journey? You go not to get there but to be there.

Don't waste your death on a half assed life

I guess we all get to live out our destiny, even those of us who have to choose the worst one imaginable. So why did I take this strange, dark trip? Well, I have a little 1-2-3 theory on this.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe.

The... development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.

My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied: 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.

We have but a single moment at our disposal. Let us transform that moment into eternity. No other form of immortality exists

Because what God wants, that, and only that, is also what we want—but we don't know it. God comes and awakens our souls, revealing to them their real, though unknown, desire. This is the secret, Brother Leo. To do the will of God means to do my own most deeply hidden will.

The seed is saved—what do we mean by "saved"? It frees the God within it by blossoming, by bearing fruit, by returning to earth once more. Let us help the seed to save itself. 20.

ÎÈ›i vin în gând mari asemenea modele, vezi limpede c? eÈ™ti un om de nimic, c? viaÈ›a È›i se iroseÈ™te în bucurii È™i în tristeÈ›i m?runte, în discuÈ›ii f?r? sens. "RuÈ™ine! RuÈ™ine!" strigi muÈ™cându-È›i buzele.

I don't pray because it makes sense to pray. I pray because my life doesn't make sense without prayer.