Quotes About Purpose

And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.

I am a firm believer in serendipity - all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

Then it hits me. Maybe we're the pieces, What? Maybe that's it. With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. Maybe, what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking. Tikkun olam.

When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing.

It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.

It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything.

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.

I am here because of love.

Don't do it for the sake of doing it, but don't wait for a fantasy either.

And you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

I don't know what good I could do. None of us does. That doesn't let us off the hook.

anyone can do more, but it will be our thing to do just one.

You cannot live for anyone else's sake. As much as you may want to, you can't stay alive just because other people want you alive. You cannot stay alive for your parents. You cannot stay alive for your friends. And you have no responsibility to stay alive for them. You have no responsibility to anyone but yourself to live.

I resent that the hours seem boring now, emptier. Going through the motions gives you plenty of time to examine the motions. I used to find this interesting. Now it has taken on the taint of meaninglessness. [...] This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.

Time is running out, but what is it running toward?

There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with. There's a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens.

He is doing it because he feels alive. [...] It is the ultimate buoy against drowning. It is the ever-saving grace.

If we don't fight other people's curses, what are we left with? Just a swift fall to the earth, and where's the meaning in that?

You're alive, and this is what you're doing with it? Your youth grows pale. What do you have left? I tried to banish the thoughts from my head. But they were stubborn, and instead of leaving, they jumped on the floorboards inside my head.

even though the world doesn't matter to her, she matters to the world

She had been lost on her own and I had been lost on my own, so it was natural that once we found each other we wanted to keep being unlost with each other. But that, at heart, had made us exist.

When the heart stops, you die. Love is everywhere that life is, and if there is no love for life, you die. Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself.

Jest when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die.