Quotes About Purpose

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

I'm giving you my life to prove to myself I can, I really can love somebody. Even when I'm not getting paid, I can give love and happiness and charm. You see, I can handle the baby food and the not talking and being homeless and invisible, but I have to know that I can love somebody. Completely and totally, permanently and without hope of reward, just as an act of will, I will love somebody.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?

There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up.

You wake up, and you're nowhere. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. You wake up, and that's enough.

You do the job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.

Grace says, We all die. She says, The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

You have a class of young men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe

As human beings, our first commandment is: Something needs to happen

Set yourself a goal so difficult that death will seem like a welcome reprieve.

The fish is some­thing to make me set­tle in one place. Ac­cord­ing to church colony doc­trine, it's why men mar­ry wom­en and why wom­en have chil­dren. It's some­thing to live your life around.

Full-time drudge. Part-time God.

We're the middle children of the history, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives

With all the lit­tle facts we learned, we nev­er had the time to think. None of us ev­er con­sid­ered what life would be like clean­ing up af­ter a stranger ev­ery day. Wash­ing dish­es all day. Feed­ing a stranger's chil­dren. Mow­ing a lawn. All day. Paint­ing hous­es. Year af­ter year.

All these stupid rocks, I say, what's your goal? This isn't about getting something done, Denny says. It's about the doing, you know, the process. But what are you going to do with all these rocks? And Denny says, I don't know until I collect enough. But what's enough? I say. I don't know, dude, Denny says, I just want the days of my life to add up to something.

So why do you want to die so bad?

We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives.

Nobody lay awake at night wondering if the wheat they'd raised was truly happy and fulfilled being made into bread.

There are a lot of good reasons to live, I tell her, and hope she won't ask for a list.

If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't.

I just want the days of my life to add up to something. The way every day of your life, the way it can just disappear in front of the television, Denny says he wants a rock to show for each day. Something tangible. Just one thing. A little monument to mark the end of each day.

I just want the days of my life to add up to something. The way every day of your life, the way it can just disappear in front of the television, Denny says he wants a rock to show for each day. Something tangible. Just one thing. A little monument to mark the end of each day... Tombstone isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.