Quotes About Purpose

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization?

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for," they do not feel like fighting. People who live full, worthwhile lives are not usually ready to die for their own interests nor for their country nor for a holy cause.9 Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

A movement's call for action evokes an eager response in the frustrated, for they see in action a cure for all that ails them. It brings self-forgetting and gives them a sense of purpose and worth. Indeed it seems that frustration stems chiefly from an inability to act, and that the most poignantly frustrated are those whose talents and temperament equip them ideally for a life of action but are condemned by circumstances to rust away in idleness.

The man just out of the army is an ideal potential convert, and we find him among the early adherents of all contemporary mass movements. He feels alone and lost in the free-for-all of civilian life. The

Of all the ways of filling one's life and of creating the illusion of purpose and worth, none seems so effective as the voluntary subjugation to a set of duties. The satisfaction derived from the daily performance of duties is so unalloyed that the inclination is strong to pile duty upon duty and revel in their performance.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

A??r? insan,gerçek bir prensip adam? deÄŸildir.O bir amaca,amac?n doÄŸruluÄŸu ve kutsall??? nedeniyle deÄŸil,bir ÅŸeye tutunmak için duyduÄŸu ÅŸiddetli ihtiyaç nedeniyle sar?l?r.

People who see their lives as irremediably spoiled cannot find a worth-while purpose in self-advancement. The prospect of an individual career cannot stir them to a mighty effort, nor can it evoke in them faith and a single-minded dedication.

You must have a goal in life. We all should have goals. Or we are lost.

To me, this passage is essentially the Chinese equivalent of the Socratic claim that the unexamined life is not worth living. It has exactly the same rhetorical assertiveness and moral severity: the unexamined life is not just less good; it's useless.

The story of El Centro's creation and flourishing reminds us that civic power may not require a plan—but it does require a purpose.

With success came a new, deeper doubt that any activity, even his cherished writing, could make life mean anything.

To put it aphoristically, no experience can feel meaningful to a nihilist—that is, to someone who has already decided that life is meaningless.

What is the arc of the plot of one's life? I want! I want!

You know, when you get old, you see that everything is a joke. All the things you were passionate about don't mean a thing. You only did them to keep busy.

You are the reason I wake up with a smile on my face, and the reason I go to sleep with a sense of belonging in this world

Ce qui constitue la beauté d'une bataille, ce n'est ni le succès ni la défaite, c'est la raison de la bataille.

es gibt gar keine Erklärung fürs Leben, man muß es einfach leben.

Yo habré trabajado mucho toda la vida, pero he trabajado despacio, tomándome todo el tiempo del mundo. No buscaba hacer números o ver desfilar clientes, no. Ir despacio, ése es el secreto de la felicidad.

Kto mnie tu umieÅ›ciÅ', na tym okrÄ…gÅ'ym kamieniu? W jakim celu? I dlaczego na tak krótko?

Êtes-vous polythéiste, monsieur ? — Pardon ? — Moi je suis monothéiste. Je n'aime qu'un compositeur : Chopin. Je possède la conviction de n'avoir été envoyée sur terre que pour jouer et écouter Chopin.

Celem nie jest koniec drogi, tylko posuwanie siÄ™ naprzód. - WÅ'aÅ›nie. Nie chcÄ™ triumfowa?, chcÄ™ ?y?. - Jasne. Å»ycie nie jest ani grÄ…, ani meczem, bo gdyby tak byÅ'o, byliby tacy, co wygrali.

Le but, ce n'est pas le bout du chemin, c'est le cheminement.

Celem nie jest koniec drogi, tylko posuwanie siÄ™ naprzód.