Quotes About Purpose

The War was just as busily studying the purpose of The Economy, which is to cause people to purchase what they do not need or do not want, and to receive patiently what they did not expect.

Se poate întâmpla ca, atunci când nu mai È™tim ce s? facem, s? fi ajuns la adev?rata noastr? munc?, iar când nu mai È™tim pe ce cale s? o lu?m, s? fi început adev?rata noastr? c?l?torie.

But the safe competence of human work extends no further, ever, than our ability to think and love at the same time.

There is a sense in which I no longer "go to work." If I live in my place, which is my subject, then I am "at" my work even when I am not working. It is "my" work because I cannot escape it.

His work has been his necessity and his desire.

And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led—make of that what you will.

His life has never rested on anything he has known beforehand — none of it. He chose it before he knew it, and again afterwards.

Every day you have less reason Not to give yourself away. - 1993 I

If I destroyed what already existed, what would I replace it with? For something always exists before you get there with your desires and visions, and this simply had not occurred to me before in such a way that I could feel the truth of it. What did I have to offer?

For many of the churchly, the life of the spirit is reduced to a dull preoccupation with getting to Heaven.

He turned to his own place then . . . and began to ask what might be the best use of it. How might a family live there without reducing it?

It bears the gnarls of its history healed over. It has risen to a strange perfection in the warp and bending of its long growth. It has gathered all accidents into its purpose. It has become the intention and radiance of its dark fate.

My life, though, has been something (as only now at last I am able to see), but it is something that it has made of itself, not something that I have made of it. All I seem to have done is avoid wherever I could (so far) the man across the desk—for (so far) the world has afforded a little room for a few of us, lucky or blessed, to go around him. And now I wonder if I can die quickly enough and secretly enough to make the final evasion.

I began to take for granted that I was somewhere, and somewhere that I knew, but I never quite felt that I was somewhere I wanted to be.

man lives not for the fulfilment of his destiny, not for the incarnation of an idea, not for progress, but solely because he was born;

Part of the pleasure has to do with a sense of efficiency, of materials exactly allocated and completely used. Another part has to do with a sense of inevitability, the feeling that someone knew where we were headed all along, even if we and the characters did not.

Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.

I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

We are all here for a reason.I believe the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people thru the darkness.

but death is the ultimate purpose of life.

Os calculistas, aqueles que vêem a vida como um jogo de astúcia que depende de uma cuidadosa avaliação de modos e meios, sempre sabem para onde estão indo e conseguem chegar lá. (...) Mas quando se trata de forças dinâmicas da vida e daqueles que personificam essas forças, tudo se torna mais difícil. As pessoas que desejam apenas atingir a auto-realização jamais sabem para onde estão indo. Nem podem sabê-lo.

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm—I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience—I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca.