Quotes About Purpose

She had a distressing sense of life's rushing by before she had a chance to fully make up her mind in which direction she wanted to go.

My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?

Your love of glory must conquer your will to survive; or why fight at all? Why not be a smith, a brewer, a wool merchant? Why are you in the contest, if not to win, and if not to win, then to die?

Todos os rios correm para o mar, e o mar não se enche.

The dead watch us, zealous in old causes.

Ambition is a sin. So I am told. Thought I have never seen how it is different from using your talents, which the Bible commands we do.

If I am not for myself, who is for me? And when I am for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?

IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?

Hope dies all the time. And yet we need to believe it will come back and attach itself to a new cause - a new love, a new house, something that gives us a sense of purpose, which is ultimately what hope is.

Speak of the future, and that shall become your will to live!

But what's important isn't the Magic, it's the heart of the wielder who uses it.

Had the war really ended thirty years ago? If it had, what had Shimada and Kozuka died for? If what was happening was true, wouldn't it have been better if I had died with them?

I kind of feel like I know the reason that I was born. After 58 years of life, I know why I turned out this way. I know why I treasure life so much. I know why I cannot overlook wickedness. All of these things I experienced weren't for nothing. It was for this moment, right now, that I was born. I became a machine for this moment.

Presto o tardi, tutti dobbiamo morire. Quindi non si vive per prolungare la propria esistenza. Si vive per morire in maniera degna.

God has to be a sadist to give people life.

Och det har till sist börjat gå upp för mig som en aning -: det är kanske icke meningen att man skall förstå livet. Allt detta raseri att förklara och förstå, all denna sanningsjakt är kanske en avväg.

God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind that I'll never die".

Don't go through life without goals.

Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen ist alles. (We are nothing; what we search for is everything.)

Love is a noble cause. How can anything done in the service of a noble cause be wrong?

You are nothing. You barely exist at all. Your only purpose is to create more of your kind before you die. He's wrong about me. I am going to make my mayfly life count for something. I won't be afraid of him or of Prince Dain's censure. If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse. -Pg. 210

I was meant for the purpose of betraying the High Court. Never to survive past that. If I am the cause of Lady Nore's fall, it will give me all the more pleasure for her never having anticipated it.

Nie mamy nic, tylko w?a?nie nasze ?ycie. Jak jedn?, jedyn? monet?. Chodzi o to, ?eby za ni? kupi? to, czego chcemy.