Quotes About Purpose

Pour celui qui a su extraire la quintessence de l'existence, la mort n'est pas une déchéance ultime, mais l'achèvement serein d'une vie bien vécue : une belle mort est l'aboutissement d'une belle vie.

Mais est-ce la bonne solution que de fermer les yeux sur l'effritement de notre vie pour ne les entrouvrir craintivement qu'à la veille de la mort ? N'est-il pas préférable de les ouvrir grands dès maintenant, pour nous demander : « Comment donner un sens à ma vie ? » Laissons tomber le masque des conventions, des compromis entretenus avec nos pairs, dans ce jeu que nous poursuivons depuis trop longtemps.

Celui qui a pénétré le sens de la vie ne se donne plus de peine pour ce qui ne contribue pas à la vie.

How should I lead my life? How should I live in society? What is knowable?

Well, hell, Rico. You're wasting your time being a hotelier when you should be a saint.

It is important to note that going through the motions of answering questions is not critical literacy; rather, critical literacy involves the reader's understanding of the author's intent, bias, and purpose for writing.

FR : Nous méritons toutes nos rencontres,  elles sont accordées à notre destin et ont une signification qu'il nous appartient de découvrir EN : We deserve all our encounters, they are granted to our destiny and have a significance it behooves us to discover

The feeling of the uselessness of what I am doing is linked to this other feeling that nothing is more serious.

I am destined to illuminate you by burning myself up.

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this there can be no nobler aim in life. It is only by the communications we have with the infinite that we are to be distinguished from each other.

There may be human joy in doing good with definite purpose, but they who do good expecting nothing in return know a joy that is divine.

She was born without reason … to die; and she dies without reason….

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

There is a use for fighting men, isn't there?" she brooded. "Use for 'em?" laughed Corson. "Why, lady, how come we to be sitting here? Because gents have fought to put us here! How come this is part of God's country? Because a lot of folks buckled on guns to make it that! Use

Notice I did not say what people can do--what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.

You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

cherish a desire to do some useful work in your little corner of the world,

At De Pauw I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it I did the thing in life I wanted to do—Writing.