Quotes About Purpose

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...

The dead will think the living are worth it we will knowWho we areAnd we will all enlist again.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

The foregoing has only one purpose: to encourage the reader to respect Self 2. This amazing instrument is what we have the effrontery to call "uncoordinated.

if one writes one can do nothing else.

as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower

An aimless joy is a pure joy

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at.

We are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know.

The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly song can help along Yours ever and sincerely: At least we know for certain that we are three old sinners, that this journey is much too long, that we want our dinners, and miss our wives, our books, our dogs, but have only the vaguest idea why we are what we are. To discover how to be human now Is the reason we follow this star.

Here am I, Here are you: but what does it mean? What are we going to do?

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

To God, the right kind of human life looks well-meant but incompetent. Zeal is more important than technique.

Education, all smoothly say, is the production of useful citizens. But, good God, what on earth is a useful citizen just now?

On the door it says what to do to survive But we were not born to survive Only to live

what I live for I can seldom believe in

The hour has come when energy and pure love are needed.

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

There's always a chance. Somebody has got to want me, and if they don't want me, then what? I want to play. I want to do what I want to do.

We live by choice, not by chance.