Quotes About Purpose

la finalidad de la vida no es otra sino la de aprestarse a estar mucho tiempo muerto.

If there is a God what the hell is He for?

Back when I could get away with it, I subscribed to Norman Mailer's view that exercise without excitement, without competition or danger or purpose, didn't strengthen the body but simply wore it out. Swimming laps always seemed to me especially pointless. But I can't get away with that attitude now. If I don't swim, I will be a pear-shaped pillar of suet.

every work of art is a work of perfect necessity.

resurrection a dispensable preoccupation for one who had not yet lived.

mechanical watches partake of what my friend John Clute calls the Tamagotchi Gesture. They're pointless in a peculiarly needful way; they're comforting precisely because they require tending.

Something she'd gotten from Burton and the Corps, that you didn't do things in the clothes you sat around in. You got yourself squared away, then your intent did too.

You just had to know how to do it, and when to do it, and most important of all, why to do it. Powerful substance like this, Lowell would explain, it wasn't there just for any casual jack-off recreational urge. It was there to allow you to do things. To empower you, he said, so you could do things and, best of all, finish them.

I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.

Ahora que tenían algo que hacer, trabajaron con entusiasmo.

I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.

I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it is over I do not know what to do with the rest of my life.

He was actually quite happy, because it was only when he was requested to use his might that he felt he wasn't a bother to everybody.

if pastors know whose they are, where they come from, and why they are here, they will better know what to do, here, now.

LOLA    I wanted children, too. When I lost my baby and found out I couldn't have any more, I didn't know what to do with myself. I wanted to get a job, but Doc wouldn't hear of it.

He wanted to feel as if he were—to play on his famous line from On the Waterfront—a "contender," someone who mattered, someone who had fought the good fight. He wanted to feel as if he had made a difference, left a mark, and not just on acting. What he did not want to be was an "unthinker," the way he described those people who never examined themselves or their place in the world.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.

The means have murdered the end.

I will act as if what i do makes a difference.

What right have we to believe Nature under any obligation to do her work by means of complete minds only? She may find an incomplete mind a more suitable instrument for a particular purpose.