Quotes About Purpose

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To live is not to breathe but to act.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.

He who wills the end wills the means also

Les gens qui passent exactement la vie entière à travailler pour vivre n'ont d'autre idée que celle de leur travail ou de leur intérêt, et tout leur esprit semble être au bout de leurs bras.

J'étais fait pour vivre, et je meurs sans avoir vécu.

Bitkilerle salt öÄŸretim üyesi ya da yazar olamk için uÄŸra??l?rsa, bu zevk yiter ve bitkiler art?ki tutkular?m?z için birer araçtan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey olmazlar; herkes, bilmek deÄŸil de bildiÄŸini göstermek kayg?s?na düÅŸer ve ormanlar?n ortas? bile, kendini beÄŸendirmek isteyenlerin beceri ve yetenek sahnesi durumunu al?r.

Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people would survive and had wanted them to remember her city and the treasure it held, the treasure that was most valuable of all - herself, her family, and all of the generations of people who had lived in that secret place, their purpose, though they didn't know it, to make sure that human beings did not vanish from the world, no matter what happened above.

I want to try to figure out what I'm supposed to do, what I might be good at. I really want to be good at something, to feel passionate about it.

Is there something you're interested in? I mean, if you could really turn your life around and follow your dreams, if you didn't have to worry about us or the money, what would you want to do?

I want to I might be good at. I really want to be good at something, to feel passionate about it.

I think if you have something that you really love to do, you're already ahead of ninety-nine percent of the people out there in the world.

Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the day.

Everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

God knows what He's doing

Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time. That

I've told you before, life's not about doing what you want.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

Man is what he wills himself to be.

In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.

I dreamed vaguely of killing myself to wipe out at least one of these superfluous lives. But even my death would have been In the way . In the way, my corpse, my blood on these stones, between these plants, at the back of this smiling garden. And the decomposed flesh would have been In the way in the earth which would receive my bones, at last, cleaned, stripped, peeled, proper and clean as teeth, it would have been In the way : I was In the way for eternity.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.