Quotes About Purpose

You have a messiah complex, got to save the world.

It is the purpose for which we exist. This reckless caring.

Half a century goes by in what seems like a year. Don't waste an hour in boredom, son, or wishing for tomorrow.

Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.

When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.

Some dreams matter. Most don't. Often it can be hard to know which might be which.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

Because to suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become someone. And that is what he is doing: becoming someone.

My child, after a certain age, everything is the same as everything else and there's nothing that serves as a goal anymore.

the two of us are giving ourselves something to do, citizens henceforth of a world in which desire no longer exists.

Finally it doesn't matter whether you're a cork on the water or a man chasing his own grail.

Ninguna de las cosas que más queremos en la vida es de naturaleza física.

Eres como Dios cuando fabricas productos para enriquecer las vidas de los demás, no para obtener un beneficio. El benefició vendrá, pero debe ser el Efecto y no la Causa de tu trabajo.

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

We've been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled.

Function must dictate form.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both. —L. P. Jacks

its kinda like the quest for the Holy Grail. Who gives a shit what the Holy Grail is, the quest is what's important. The transformation is within yourself, that's what is important.

We needed philosophical and inspirational guides to make sure we always asked the right questions and found the right answers.

The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to "have it all," the sooner it will die.

If we could all come to see our consumer products as tools that help us to live our real lives—rather than as substitutes and surrogates for that life—we would need many fewer products to be happy.

Or as Dieter Rams, head of design at Braun, maintains, "Good design is as little design as possible.

I only have one life so I better waste it wisely.

I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.