Quotes About Purpose

Te-mpaci cu eÅŸecul? — M?-mpac cu lupta neîncetat?. Dup? mine, victoria const? chiar în lupt?, nu în deznod?mântul ei. F?r? s?-mi uit scopul, renunÅ£ la iluzia de a câÅŸtiga.

Je ne veux pas triompher, je veux vivre.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

If I am what I have and if what I have is lost, who then am I? Nobody but a defeated, deflated, pathetic testimony to a wrong way of living.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows 'what he wants,' while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve. It is a task we frantically try to avoid by accepting ready-made goals as though they were our own.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

Yet all this bespeaks a dim realization of the truth—the truth that modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve. It is a task we frantically try to avoid by accepting ready-made goals as though they were our own.

God explains to Jonah that the essence of love is to "labor" for something and "to make something grow

If I am nothing but what I believe I am supposed to be—who am I?

When a person feels that he has not been able to make sense of his own life, he tries to make sense of it in terms of the life of his children. But one is bound to fail within oneself and for the children. The former because the problem of existence can be solved by each one only for himself, and not by proxy; the latter because one lacks in the very qualities which one needs to guide the children in their own search for an answer.

Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains—except kill it.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Feeling passionate about something is like getting a peak at your soul smiling back at you.

A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing

God created the uncertainty for perfection.

Live it well and this life can be grand.

You speak of giving up my dreams. Have you ever, since Maeve's coven split, had a dream? Have you ever had anything worth dying for?

Life is worthwhile in itself

are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?

Gelmek bir yolun sonuna varmak de?il, insan her menzilde bir yere var?r.

it's not often in life that you can misbehave for the good of the cause

Hayat insana b?kk?nl?k verecek kadar uzun de?ildir.

Bu halde hiçbir ÅŸeyim önemi kalmaz ve zaten ölümüm de yoldan olmaz.