Quotes About Purpose

here we are, all of us, eating and drinking to preserve our precious existence, and that there's nothing, nothing, absolutely no reason for existing.

I was neither a grandfather, nor a father, nor even a husband. I didn't vote, I scarcely paid any taxes; I couldn't lay claim to the rights of a tax-payer, nor to those of an elector, nor even to the humble right to honour which twenty years of obedience confer on an employee. My existence was beginning to cause me serious concern. Was I a mere figment of the imagination?

El mundo de las explicaciones y razones no es el de la existencia.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live

They are as unfree as Roquentin, yet they hide the terrible imprisonment of their existences by unthinkingly getting up, going out to work, relaxing on Sundays, and so on. They wrongly imagine that they have chosen this form of life, when of course it has chosen them.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance. I

I'm not writing my book on Rollebon any more; it's finished, I can't write any more of it. What am I going to do with my life?

Wiem bardzo dobrze, ?e nie chc? nic robi?: czyni? cokolwiek to stwarza? istnienie – a jest i tak wiele istnienia.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.

I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

God doesn't tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.

Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

The thing is, work is the thing I love the most.

To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Life is about work. Work is about life. And both are about people.

Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.

Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be, That this thing shall be added unto thee.

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.

I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.

Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.

Your life's work is something you love to do, something your talents can find full expression through. If we enjoy our work, we are sure to bring our creativity and enthusiasm to it.

Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!