Quotes About Purpose

an organism's primary directive is to continue to exist—

People with packs are people with purpose.

What am I? How am I connected? What is my purpose? What is all of this, felt in the flesh? Why is it so beautiful? What is beautiful? Why do I not know? What else don't I know? When will I know it? Will I ever know? Would knowing be too much?

I never much understood the point of the world of men. How they fed off each other. How they motivated themselves. I mean, I got the purpose, but I navigated that world the way an astronaut would an alien landscape. Trying not to breathe the same air. Which was impossible, of course.

Never do something for just one reason.

Live with your age, but be not its creation; labour for your contemporaries, but do for them what they need, and not what they praise'. F. Schiller, Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays (Boston: Francis A. Niccolls, 1902), p. 33.

I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.

Berusahalah untuk tidak menjadi manusia yang berhasil tapi berusahalah menjadi manusia yang berguna

Somos arquitectos de nuestro propio destino.

You were born to be among the advisors and thinkers, the spiritual and moral leaders for your society. There is every reason for pride.

Oh, of course I'd be BREATHING all the time I was doing those things, Aunt Polly, but I wouldn't be living. You breathe all the time you're asleep, but you aren't living. I mean living—doing the things

Father says that I'm one little instrument in the great Orchestra of Life, and that I must see to it that I'm always in tune, and don't drag or hit false notes

I am not a cosmic orphan.

A crowd exists so long as it has an unattained goal.

La massa ha bisogno di una direzione. Essa è in movimento e muove verso qualcosa. La direzione comune a tutti gli appartenenti rinforza la sensazione di eguaglianza.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?

God made man because He loves stories.

What is man? Dust turned to hope.

In the word question, there is a beautiful word-quest. I love that word.

When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?' Elie Wiesel

There is so much to be done, there is so much that can be done.

There are those who tell me that I survived in order to write this text. I am not convinced. I don't know how I survived; I was weak, rather shy; I did nothing to save myself. A miracle? Certainly not. If heaven could or would perform a miracle for me, why not for others more deserving than myself? It was nothing more than chance. However, having survived, I needed to give some meaning to my survival.