Quotes About Purpose

Love is a noble cause,' Vivi reminded her. 'How can anything done in the service of a noble cause be wrong?

What happiness do you have? Rutting and breeding. You'd go mad if you accepted the truth of what you are. You are nothing. You barely exist at all. Your only purpose is to create more of your kind before you die some pointless and agonizing death.

All human beings should try and learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. —JAMES THURBER

Our lives are the only real thing we have, our only coin. We get to buy what we want with them

Human bodies betray us. They get starved and sick and run-down. I know it, and yet there is always so much more to do.

But let me quote President Theodore Roosevelt: 'Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I read this book once that said we meet the people we need to meet when we're ready for them. Maybe that's why we met. To try and help each other figure out who we are now.

Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us and to give us the power and the tools to dream beyond reality's 'merely good enough' to a vision of what is truly great... ...and then to give us the stories of men and women of character who in turn inspire those of us who dare to reach for the truly great within ourselves. THAT is why you write fiction.

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.

I don't think you can keep someone you truly love at arm's length on purpose, they'll always end up in your arms.

We are all called to be saints, (although we are not all called to be canonized).

He told me I could live in a corner of the world, like I was doing now, and think I was happy, or I could live in the whole world and know where I belonged," Peter said.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

Life is a business transaction.

Well, it is this: that pleasure is an accident in a Christian's life; it is not the aim of it; and this we learn too late.

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

The reason for it all, nobody who is actually engaged in it can tell you, except the bosses, who believe that these sacred rites of composing dull letters and solemnly filing them away are observed in order that they may buy the large automobiles in which they do not have time to take the air.

Gods have bestowed our genius on us; They will also find its use some day.

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.

I am not made for despair

Perhaps there were no answers to questions like that. Perhaps nothing was ever "meant to be." There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit "bendy.

The bills would keep on coming, no matter what else was happening in your life and that was good because it gave you a purpose. You worked so you could pay them. You rested on the weekends and generated more bills. Then you went back to work to pay for them. That was the reason for getting up tomorrow. That was the meaning of life.