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Quotes About Purpose

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.
~ Émile Zola
In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death.
~ Maximus the Confessor
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
~ Albert Camus
The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
~ Albert Camus
Moving ahead, so life won't pass me by.
~ Jim Croce
Money is small and the soul stands tall. All those who don't realize this, fall.
~ LL Cool J
Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
~ Gordon Lightfoot
The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
~ Plato
I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.
~ Edmund Husserl
Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer.
~ Meat Loaf
And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.
~ Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker
Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
~ Issey Miyake
Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The principles must always precede the activities.
~ Henrietta Mears
I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.
~ Roman Polanski
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
~ Ambrose Bierce
This Life is More than Just a read through.
~ Anthony Kiedis
Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.
~ Robin Williams
I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.
~ Jerry Fodor
There are two conflicting philosophies that I love: "Everything happens for a reason," as well as "you can change everything that you have control over."
~ Yara Shahidi
The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.
~ Stéphane Mallarmé
Happiness is a side effect of doing something that has nothing to do with it.
~ Bootsy Collins
My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.
~ Elvis Presley
It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
~ Albert Schweitzer