Quotes About Purpose

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. :)

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God

I feel strongly that in the continual striving for the actualization of every living thing lies our only hope. This is the unique challenge of Personhood and the sole purpose of this book.

There just is no higher motive for doing anything than to do it for God.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

One can live splendidly in the world, if one can work and love, work for that which one loves, and love that at which one works.

The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, responsible, honorable, compassionate. It is, above all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

porque uma ideia tão justa não poderá ser estéril, um fim tão gracioso merece ser executado com obstinação.

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

Remember then: there is only one time that is important-- Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else: and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life!

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.

There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.

What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.