Quotes About Purpose

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up someplace else.

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

You've got to be careful If you don't know where you're going, Because you might get there.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

If you don't know where you're going, you might wind up some place else.

If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.

The purpose of life is to watch and experience living. To enjoy living every moment of it. And to live in environments, which are calm, quiet, slow, sophisticated, elegant. Just to be. Whether you are naked or you have a golden robe on you, that doesn't make any difference. The ideal purpose of your life is that you are grateful - great and full - that you are alive, and you enjoy it.

You have to understand the purpose of life, the purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.

It is a premise of Enlightenment liberalism that the only legitimate purpose of government is to enable individuals to make use of the freedom that is theirs by nature.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

Do que adianta a ciência... se nem uma vida pode salvar...?

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

A parte de la vida misma, no veo otropa motivo para seguir viviendo.

Art?k yaÅŸamak gerektiÄŸinin bask?s?n? duydum içimde. YaÅŸanacak hayat?m? yaÅŸamal?yd?m. BaÅŸtan aÅŸa?? maskaral?ktan bir ÅŸey olmasa da, gerçek hayat?mla hiç ilgisi bulunmasa da, art?k baÅŸlaman?n ve çaresiz ayaklar?m? harekete geçirmenin zaman? gelmiÅŸti benim için.

Neden her ÅŸeyi bozmaya, her ÅŸeyi deÄŸiÅŸtirmeye, her ÅŸeyi geçiciliÄŸe havale etmeye vazifelendirilmiÅŸiz böyle? Bu zevksiz görev, bütün dünyan?n 'hayat' diye tan?mlad??? ÅŸey miydi?

His conviction of having no purpose in life other than to act as a distillation of poison was part of the ego of an eighteen-year-old. He had resolved that his beautiful white hands would never be soiled or calloused. He wanted to be like a pennant, dependent on each gusting wind. The only thing that seemed valid to him was to live for the emotions--gratuitous and unstable, dying only to quicken again, dwindling and flaring without direction or purpose.

There is nothing in the least special about you. I guarantee you a long life. You have not been chosen by the gods, you will never be at one with your acts, you do not have in you the green light to flash like young lightning with the speed of the gods and destroy yourself. All you have is a certain premature senility. Your life will be suited for coupon-clipping. Nothing more.

J'éprouvais le besoin de commencer à vivre. Commencer à vivre ma vraie vie ? Même si ce devait être une simple mascarade et pas du tout ma vraie vie, le temps était venu où il me fallait prendre le départ et s'avancer en traînant lourdement mes pas.

To say human life had no meaning was the easy part. But Hanio was struck all over again by the huge amount of energy required to live a life filled with so much meaninglessness.

Man does not live simply in order to die.

Once the world has been transformed into something meaningful, some feel they can die without regret. Others feel that they exist in a world without meaning, so what's the point of living? But where do these two sets of feelings converge? For Hanio, both paths led to the same thing: death.

It's only the desire to live as long as possible that makes everything seem complicated and mysterious.