Quotes About Purpose

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What'd you choose to do with yours?

Perhaps we will not be great people, chosen by God, but just happy.

Learn you to die!" means consider how your death is meaningful, as your life is meaningful.

If He were not God, then one would think it very badly planned.

Sometimes God gives us a moment of destiny, and we have to hear the call and rise to it.

I was born to be Queen of England and mother of the next King of England. I have to fulfill my destiny, it is my God-given destiny.

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Within human luck is divine intentionality.

one is reminded, at a level deeper than all words, how making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

La question à l'échelle du macrocosme comme du microcosme, y a-t-il une intention ou bien seulement nécessité et hasard ? (p.203)

I think that man was half-right. He is better off out of the game - but the game may not be better off without him. A man should not exist for himself alone. Life made an investment in him, and that investment was not paid off.

Good intentions were not enough; they had to be rationally implemented.

It is not how long one lives, but how well one lives that is important.

If a thing could not be accomplished honestly, probably it wasn't worth accomplishing at all.

Today I did not die. I have been let to live today and must be thankful that tomorrow I may return to work—to die.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

a life without investigation is not worth living

for the unexamined life is not worth living.

Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.

the most important thing is not life, but the good life.

all of a sudden he will catch sight of something wonderfully beautiful in its nature; that, Socrates, is the reason for all his earlier labors

I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia—by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best. (tr Jowett)

he will find people there who, seeing the want, undertake the office of salesmen. In well-ordered states they are commonly those who are the weakest in bodily strength, and therefore of little use for any other purpose;

Now actions vary according to the manner of their performance. Take, for example, that which we are now doing, drinking, singing and talking - these actions are not in themselves either good or evil, but they turn out in this or that way according to the mode of performing them; and when well done they are good, and when wrongly done they are evil; and in like manner not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.