Quotes About Purpose

I think life always provides reasons to not die, if we listen hard enough.

Maybe there was no perfect life for her, but somewhere, surely, there was a life worth living. And if she was to find a life truly worth living, she realised she would have to cast a wider net.

Don't think your work matters more than it does.

If your life isn't working You have to ask why.

Movement isn't progress if we are heading in the wrong direction

Your life will have 25,000 days in it. Make sure you remember some of them.

Always be aware of what you are doing, and why you are doing it.

Be alive. That is your supreme duty to the world.

Don't do the work people expect you to do. Do the work you want to do. You only get one life. It's always best to live it as yourself.

We don't have to do everything in order to be everything

Oh, and let's not forget the Things They Do to Make Themselves Happy That Actually Make Them Miserable. This is an infinite list. It includes shopping, watching TV, taking the better job, getting the bigger house, writing a semiautobiographical novel, educating their young, making their skin look mildly less old, and harboring a vague desire to believe there might be a meaning to it all.

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely. 'You're quoting

She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before. She heard Mrs Elm's voice, from under the table somewhere far behind her, cutting through the noise. 'Don't give up! Don't you dare give up, Nora Seed!' She didn't want to die. And she didn't want to live any other life than the one that was hers.

Even the bad experiences serve a purpose

You will never live if you're looking for the meaning of life.

Walking one foot in front of the other, in the same direction, will always get you further than running around in circles. It's about the determination to keep walking forward.

A Camus quote came to her, right in the middle of it. I may have not been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

Sentimentality is another human flaw. A distortion. Another twisted by-product of love, serving no rational purpose. And yet, there was a force behind it as authentic as any other.

I am a waste of a carbon footprint, to be honest.

what is the point of living when you have no one to live for?

Maar als je op zoek bent naar de zin van het leven zul je nooit leven,' zei hij wijs. (Camus)

We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.

Why did we get married? What is the point of it? What are the rules involved?

The only fear of missing out that matters is the fear of missing out on yourself.