Quotes About Purpose

What is bad? What is good? What should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I? What is life, and what is death? What power governs all?

A MAN IN MOTION always devises an aim for that motion. To be able to go a thousand miles he must imagine that something good awaits him at the end of those thousand miles. One must have the prospect of a promised land to have the strength to move

A man in motion always devises an aim for that motion.

I work, I want to do something, but I had forgotten it must all end; I had forgotten-death.

We must live. We must love. And we must believe that there's more to it all than our lives on this scrap of earth.

But the time has come to realize that I can no longer deceive myself, that I am alive, that I am not to blame, and that God created me as a person who needs to love and to live.

Freedom is the content. Inevitability is the form.

the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic life he was leading for this laborious, pure, and socially delightful life.

One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work.

All of us, especially you women, have to go for themselves through all the nonsense of life to come back to life itself

Why does everything exist that exists, and why do I exist?" "Because it exists.

De acuerdo con la fé, para comprender el sentido de la vida debía renunciar a la razón, la misma para la cual es necesario el sentido.

And what will be there, and what has there been here? Why was I so reluctant to part with life? There was something in this life I did not and do not understand.

I work, I want to do something, but I had forgotten it must all end; I had forgotten—death." He

There are two sides to each man's life: his personal life, which is the more free the more abstract its interests, and his elemental, swarmlike life, where man inevitably fulfills the laws prescribed for him. Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.

An inner voice tells us we are in the wrong if we are idle.

And the main thing is," he continued, "that I know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the only sure happiness in life.

Only by renouncing our claim to discern a purpose immediately intelligible to us, and admitting the ultimate purpose to be beyond our ken, may we discern the sequence of experiences in the lives of historic characters, and perceive the cause of the effect they produce (incommensurable with ordinary human capabilities) and then the words chance and genius become superfluous.

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." - Leo Tolstoy quote- from BrainyQuote.com-

All that spring he was not himself and lived through terrible moments. "Without knowing what I am and why I'm here, it is impossible for me to live. And I cannot know that, therefore I cannot live," Levin would say to himself.

He began to pray, and was obsessed by the fear lest he should die without having done any good in the world; he longed to live, and to live so as to achieve the renunciation of self.

To that question, What for? a simple answer was now always ready in his soul: 'Because there is a God, that God without whose will not a single hair falls from the head of man.

What will come from what I do and from what I will do tomorrow—what will come from my whole life? Expressed differently, the question would be this: Why should I live, why should I wish for anything, why should I do anything? One can put the question differently again: Is there any meaning in my life that wouldn't be destroyed by the death that inevitably awaits me?

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.