Quotes About Purpose

Nuestra misión es salvar el mundo, no curar corazones heridos. Eres demasiado compasivo.

Life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

Excuse me, but if God wanted to do everything himself, what did he make us for in the first place?

H]e had come to work for what the fee could buy, and not for joy of the work itself.

Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as in useful ones.

Here is the meaning of life: ...to make babies with her, with him, or to find them some other way, but then to raise them up, and watch them do the same thing, generation after generation, so that when you die you know you are permanently a part of the great web of life. That you are not a loose thread, snipped off. (Anton)

So you choose to measure by the only standard that allows your life to be meaningless?

We all act because we're sure of what we want, and we believe that the actions we perform will get us what we want, but we never know anything for sure, and so all our rationales are invented to justify what we were going to do anyway before we thought of any reasons.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

If the purpose of life was just to continue into the future, then none of it would have meaning, because it would be all anticipation and preparation. There's fruition, Grego. There's the happiness we've already had. The happiness of each moment. The end of our lives, even if there's no forward continuation, no progeny at all, the end of our lives doesn't erase the beginning.

He wasn't preoccupied, he was unoccupied. He had detached himself from the world. And her job was to reconnect him. To bring him back and show him his place in the web of humanity.

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. - Alai pg.216

How do you know when the obstacles in your path have been placed by God to protect you, or by Satan to hinder God's purposes in your affairs?

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

Only love can keep anyone alive...