Quotes About Purpose

Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad.

Running was the way he dreamed. Having never been in control of his life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free. He dreamed of being at the mercy of the wind, carried aloft and blown here and there, a life of true randomness instead of always being part of someone else's purpose.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given [to] you by good people, by people who love you. I didn't come here because I wanted to be a colonist. I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore.

you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you. I didn't come here because I wanted to be a colonist. I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore.

It isn't what he did, Mrs. Wiggin. It's why.

Still, it's better to believe that some high purpose guides our steps than to think that nothing matters except our own small miseries and happinesses.

Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned.

But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.

Everything we do means something.

Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what just living might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies. To have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

You've got to do something with your life,' said Mazer. And there it was: The tacit recognition that Ender wasn't going home. That he was never going to lead a normal life on Earth.

If our happiness is the purpose of God, … why are so few of us happy?' 'Perhaps he want us to have the happiness that we can only find for ourselves.

You have always been useless. But that doesn't mean you aren't necessary. What do you mean? Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as useful ones.

The reason for a woman's life," said Sarai, "is the same as the reason for a man's—so that she might have joy.

There's a longer view, in which life and death are less important matters than choosing what kind of life and what kind of death we have.

don't even know why I do what I do. How can I know what other people's true purposes are? There's no hope

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

We pray for a messenger from God—who knows but what the messenger also prayed for a place to take his message?

If our happiness is the purpose of God," said Alai, "why are so few of us happy?

They offered something that was genuinely good, and people's lives were better because they offered it. It was not a noble cause that would get written up in the histories. But it was not nothing, either. A person could do worse than spend some large percentage of his life in a cause like that. Bean

Everything everybody does is a waste of time, until it isn't