Quotes About Purpose

Shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death?

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

You don't make art out of good intentions.

The acquisition of knowledge for which no use can be found is a sure method of driving a man to revolt.

Ese soy yo, que al caso cruzo el mundo, sin pensar de donde vengo, ni adonde mis pasos me llevarán

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.'' —Job xxxiii., 15.

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

And surely, surely, if we are not simply animals that live to fight, there must be a reason for bloodshed.

He had a sense—honed by experience—that what he'd contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. [p. 67]

Jelena had begun thinking about such things, how much having a chance to do what you were good at mattered.

What I was born to may not be taken from me.' She hesitates. 'It may only be added to.

My third glass of a night is blue, Alessan said. The third glass I drink is always of blue wine. In memory of something lost. Lest on any single night I forget what it is I am alive to do.

The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people's lives.

What was the use of fighting unless you could see something ahead to fight for?

E?er Homeros'tan ö?rendi?im aziz ve k?ymetli bir hayat dersi varsa,o da bir canl?n?n vaktini doldurmak için,zahmete de?er projeler yaratmas?n?n asl?nda ne kadar önemli oldu?udur.

Live and go out. Define and medicate the whirlwind.

Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

What, what am I to do with all of this life?

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.

Final cause is cause based on purpose or design: a wheel is round because that shape makes transportation possible. Physical cause is mechanical: the earth is round because gravity pulls a spinning fluid into a spheroid. The distinction is not always so obvious. A drinking glass is round because that is the most comfortable shape to hold or drink from. A drinking glass is round because that is the shape naturally assumed by spun pottery or blown glass.

The demon replaces chance with purpose. It uses information to reduce entropy.