Quotes About Purpose

People, she sneered, were not meant to be as happy as you make them. … People were meant to be as happy as you make them.

Maybe it's all too simple for the big brains to figure it out. What if the hokey-pokey is really what it's all about?

For marriage to last, it has to be built on a much greater purpose than the happiness and well-being of two single people. And that purpose has to be greater than any amount of stress and struggle that comes into the marriage.

I know what nothing means, and keep on playing.

I am what I am. To look for 'reasons' is beside the point.

It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P. high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not, and more and more people had the uneasy apprehension that it was not.

I know what 'nothing' means, and I keep on playing. Why, BZ would say. Why not, I say.

I am what I am. To look for «reasons» is beside the point.

I did that on purpose,' Lucille Miller told Erwin Sprengle later, 'to save myself from letting my heart do something crazy.

Anthony Lewis had written in The New York Times in September of 1975, "only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.

The search for conspiracy," Anthony Lewis had written in The New York Times in September of 1975, "only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.

Maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?

She dressed every morning with a greater sense of purpose than she had felt in some time, a cotton skirt, a jersey, sandals she could kick off when she wanted the touch of the accelerator, and she dressed very fast, running a brush through her hair once or twice and tying it back with a ribbon...

The world Michael Laski had constructed for himself was one of labyrinthine intricacy and immaculate clarity, a world made meaningful not only by high purpose but by external and internal threats, intrigues and apparatus, an immutably ordered world in which things mattered.

Tell me what matters,' BZ said. 'Nothing,' Maria said.

They say an unexamined life is not worth living

If you saw through everything, it made it hard to figure out what to do with yourself.

Not having God with you is like trying to walk normally on one leg; it twists you, it must.

Like a flower she grows towards the light, without thinking or examining the process which moves her to do so. I wish I could do the same.

Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.

Why can't they see, mon père? Why can't they see what the woman is doing to us? Breaking down our community spirit, our sense of purpose. playing on what is worst and weakest in the secret heart. Earning for herself a kind of affection, of loyalty that - God help me! - I am weak enough to covet.

I believe in family values and following your dreams.

I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.

People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.