Quotes About Purpose

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth.

Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

Boldly, perhaps still warm from human bodies, the unmade double bed bore visible witness to the point and purpose of this room.

No hay cosa más insoportable que pasar toda una vida obsesionada por un solo punto, por un solo día de existencia

el amor no encuentra su sentido en el ansia de cosas ya hechas, completas y terminadas, sino en el impulso a participar en la construcción de esas cosas.

What good will convincing the princess do? Bria asked. I know she's supposed to be well-loved, but she's still just a young girl. The viceroy is considering appointing her Alderaan's representative to the Imperial Senate next year, Winter said. Don't underestimate Leia's strength of purpose or influence.

I thought about dying. It seemed like the rational thing to kill myself. I thought of my parents. I knew I couldn't do it as long as they were alive. I thought of Rani needing me. I couldn't do it if someone needed me or loved me. Love was the only thing in my life. Everything else had already proven itself hollow and meaningless.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

was between lives. "What is it?" I asked. "What is it we are longing for?" He thought a minute and said, "There isn't any it. There is just the longing for it." This sounded exactly right. Years later and a little wiser, I know what the longing was for: here is where I belong.

You call yourselves 'realists', but you remain strangers to reality and blind to its totality, dreamless sleepers wandering aimlessly in search of life's true meaning and purpose which lie buried among the ruins of your own greatest longings.

Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.

The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of the Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.

For the pious person, destiny means not simply to accomplish, but to contribute.

Above all, remember that the meaning of life is to live it as if it were a work of art. You're not a machine. When you're young, start working on this great work of art called your own existence.

Judaism is God's quest for man.

It is not utility that we seek in religion but eternity.

The Greeks learned in order to comprehend. The Hebrews learned in order to revere. The modern man learns in order to use.

It is in deeds that man becomes aware of what his life really is