Quotes About Purpose

if you program a purpose into a computer program, does that constitute its will? Does it have free will, if a programmer programmed its purpose?

This is your life, Frank. What would you do without it?

You have to fight not only against what you hate, but for what you love, you see? And so you have to find what it is you love. You have to remember it, or create it.

What's the point? we asked. No more fishing. Good, we said.

So what's the point? Why do it all? Why not be content with what you've got? Who were they, that they were so discontent? Who the fuck were they?

It is a form of grace to become nothing but a task -Hjalmar Nederland from Kim Stanley Robinson's Icehenge

Knowledge is important, but much more important is the use toward which it is put. This depends on the heart and mind of the one who uses it.

Senescence is not a simple matter. Staying alive when senescence should have kicked in—it's a wonder we've done as much as we have. There's probably a purpose in senescence. Avoiding overpopulation, perhaps. Making room for new genetic material.

A compulsion, a life with a goal, how could you tell the difference?

Pain may be the only reality but if mankind had any sense it would pursue the delusion called happiness. All the philosophers and poets who tell us that pain and suffering have a place and purpose in the cosmic order of things are welcome to them. They are frauds. We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it, nor do we have any choice but to bear it. Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves.

When a heart is sufficiently focused and ruthless in its desires...then, for good or evil, the end will justify any means

together we could make something worthwhile of our lives'.23

So lebte Barbara, und vielleicht gab der Umstand, das sie auf Nicoletta wartete ,daß sie zu jeder Stunde des Tages auf Nicolettas überraschende Ankunft vorbereitet war, ihren Leben den geheimen Sinn, das rätselhafte Zentrum, das es bedurfte.

At hun ikke hadet faret vild kom av at hun overhodet ikke for.

A ti, ?ovje?e, sad razmišljam o tebi. Od svega živoga na tom svijetu, ti si ro?en gotovo ni za šta. Ti budeš dobar ili zao, postojiš bez nekog zamišljenog cilja. Stižeš iz magle i vra?aš se u nju, tako si silno nesavršen.

Thus, he walks and walks in his wilderness, a futile, foolish trek made not in order to arrive somewhere but simply and solely in order to be one of those who walk in the wilderness. And this work of his is a life sentence.

Aldeles riktig, jeg følger ikke mønstret. Jeg er tilfreds med ett mål mat om dagen, siden slikker jeg solskin. Hvorfor skal vi bli noget?

The only way to get to where you want to go is to take a step in that direction. And the best way to do that is to begin.

I don't think there is any point in continuing writing. Since I have neither killed nor been killed, there's nothing further to explain. (Box Man, p. 38)

In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life in a part are created, the inner and the outer. They are intertwined. A common purpose brings them together and reinforces the unbreakable bond.

If you speak any lines, or do anything, mechanically, without fully realizing who you are, where you came from, why, what you want, where you are going, and what you will do when you get there, you will be acting without imagination. That time, whether it will be short or long, will be unreal, and you will be nothing more than a wound-up machine, an automation.

On the stage do not run for the sake of running, or suffer for the sake of suffering. Don't act "in general", for the sake of action; always act with a purpose.

Is it so bad being directed if you like where you're headed?

No heart that holds onto a right desire can tread the road of loss