Quotes About Purpose

There was a reason why Special Forces soldiers hardly ever retired - being retired means losing integration. Losing integration means being alone.

As well as you can, live the life you want to live and make the work you want to make. After you're gone it'll all be sorted out or not. You won't be around to worry about it. Focus on the parts you're around for.

You don't win by getting through all your life not having done anything.

The sense you're where you're supposed to be, with someone you're supposed to be with.

I'm trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up. A nice thing to wonder about when you're thirty." "I don't think it matters what age you are when you figure it out," Brous said. "I think the important thing is to figure it out before someone else tells you what you want to be, and they get it wrong.

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

Intention, good or bad, is not enough.

She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold onto this illusion, even though he knows it's not true.

To determine to go and to say it was to be halfway there

You see, there's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

And because they were in some way one thing and one purpose, she smiled with him. And they began this day with hope.

The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found, nor much identification from shapes which symbolize continents and states.

But to find where you are going, you must know where you are, and I didn't.

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he only ought to consider whether he is doing right or wrong.

In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counter word in English. It is the verb vascular, present participle vacilando. I does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere but doesn't greatly care whether or not her gets there, although he has direction. . . We could choose some article almost certain not to exist there and then diligently try to find it.

A thing so triumphantly illogical, so beautifully senseless as an army can't allow a question to weaken it.

Aron said slowly. "I wouldn't want to know that. I'd like to know why you do it. You're always at something. I just wonder why you do it. I wonder what's it good for." A pain pierced Cal's heart. His planning suddenly seemed mean and dirty to him. He knew that his brother had found him out. And he felt a longing for Aron to love him. He felt lost and hungry and he didn't know what to do.

Work is the only good thing.

um homem tem de ter qualquer coisa a que se ligue, qualquer coisa que ele possa estar certo de encontrar lá de manhã.

Can a man think out his life, or must he just tag along?