Quotes About Purpose

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

And what then? What did life offer apart from the care of money? Nothing.

He's got _go_, anyhow.' Certainly, he's got go,' said Gudrun. 'In fact I've never seen a man that showed signs of so much. The unfortunate thing is, where does his _go_ go to, what becomes of it?

What good was this place, this college? What good was Anglo-Saxon, when one only learned it in order to answer examination questions, in order that one should have a higher commercial value later on? She was sick with this long service at the inner commercial shrine. Yet what else was there? Was life all this, and this only? Everywhere, everything was debased to the same service. Everything went to produce vulgar things, to encumber material life.

Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)

There were eleven of us. Each more different than the next. All with the same mindset. Things weren't the way they were meant to be. It was our job to make things right. We were the soldiers of Halla. It was time for us to take it back.

Clarifying the Way means that we determine the point we should aim at throughout our lives, based on the self that is only the self and life that is only life. This is the sole great matter, and this is what completing the sole great matter of one's life means. True practice begins at this point.

Money, fame, class, and titles are just symbols, or opportunities, for making a difference. Real power means enhancing the greater good, and your feelings of power will direct you to the exact way you are best equipped to do this.

no matter how long you try to follow a meaningful purpose in life, impermanence always cuts it off.

To take care of your life is to burn the flame of your life force in everything you do.

You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

the great aim of education,' said Herbert Spencer, 'is not knowledge but action.

I wasn't interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living.

A man usually has two reasons for doing a thing: the one that sounds good and the real one.

For "the great aim of education," said Herbert Spencer, "is not knowledge but action." And

Hay una divinidad que forja nuestros fines, por mucho que queramos alterarlos.

You are one in seven billion—your progress is not meant for you alone.

gran objetivo de la educación -dijo Herbert Spencer no es el conocimiento, sino la acción.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

El mismo Dios, señor, no se propone juzgar al hombre hasta el fin de sus días

Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles.

Education must not simply teach work - it much teach life

Comrade, you and I can never be satisfied with sitting down before a great human problem and saying nothing can be done. We must do something. That is the reason we are here on Earth.