Quotes About Purpose

I strongly believe that we are not put on this Earth just to accumulate victories and trophies and avoid failures; but rather to be whittled and sandpapered down until what's left is who we truly are

Truth had hanged the way the landscape had changed to accommodate progress, altered by each generation to its purpose. He had learned from the talk of old men that there was no such thing as truth, truth was always shaded by perception and expectation.

Simplicity is never to be associated with weakness and ignorance. It means reducing tons of ore to nuggets of gold. It means the light of fullest knowledge; it means that the individual has seen the folly and the nothingness of those things that make up the sum of the life of others. He has lived down what others are blindly seeking to live up to.

G?sesc c? numa' a?a po?i tr?i pe lume, f?când mereu câte ceva, de vrei s? nu-nnebune?ti or s? nu scobori mai jos decât câinele ultimului om.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

We shall never come at God's glory out of God's way.

Masters, if wise, do not use to set their servants about such work as will not pay for the candle they burn in doing it. And truly nothing less than the glorifying of God, and saving our souls at last, can be worth the precious time we spend here.

He that thinks he works for a song, as we say, will not sing at his work

The manifestations of God's love are to fit us for our work.

There is no less wickedness potentially in the tamest sinner on earth, than in the devils themselves, and that one day thou, whoever thou art, wilt show to purpose, if God prevent thee not by his renewing grace. Thou

If thy thoughts be not broadly wicked, then inquire whether they be not empty, frothy, vain imaginations, that have no subserviency to the glory of God, thy own good or others'; and if so, leave not till thou hast made thyself apprehensive of Satan's design on thee, in them. Though such are not for thy purpose, yet they are for his; they serve his turn to keep thee from better.

In Bible-story journeys, ain't no journey hopeless. Everybody finds what they suppose to find.

It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play — the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life — its facility, its use.

Why have You made us the saddest animal? (...) He cannot do it, Henry, that is why. He can't continue us. All He can do is try to make us happy that we die. Really, He's a pretty good fellow.

Some may still be impatient to die for the emperor, but the chief point in life is to die of something and never for something if it can be helped.

Because if we were each as identical as twins, I would scratch your face to say the scratch set you apart and made you more interesting, and gave you a purpose in life: to scratch me back a thousand times.

We shall live for no reason. Then die and be done with it. What a recognition! What shall save us? Only the knowledge that we have lived without illusion, not excluding the illusion that something will save us.

We shall live for no reason. Then die and be done with it. What a recognition! What shall save us? Only the knowledge that we have lived without illusion, not excluding the illusion that something will save us. —William H. Gass, "Mr. Gaddis and His Goddamn Books" (2006)

we are forever getting confused into thinking that scripture is mainly about what we are supposed to do rather than a picture of who God is.

There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

The time we lose is not in overdoing what we are about, but in doing nothing.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.