Quotes About Purpose

Shortly after Sarah died, I started reevaluating what I was spending time on. The push-and-pull games with Jason now seemed childish, and I felt like God wanted me to make space for bigger things.

Sometimes I wonder if, instead of falling madly in love, we should aspire to fall sanely in love. But then, what would be the point?

To live intensely is a basic human necessity.

Tolkien tells us that we do not charge into battle because we know we will win. We do so regardless of odds and outcomes, because we have to.

We believe ourselves to be motivated by self-interest and yet our lives are devoted to aims which are not our own

Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.

the love for life, and not only the wish to remain alive

What is the goal of living? What is life's meaning for man? But is this really a meaningful question? Is there a reason for wanting to live, and would we rather not live if we had no such reason?

We need such an object of devotion in order to integrate our energies in one direction, to transcend our isolated existence, with all its doubts and insecurities, and to answer our need for a meaning to life.

One loves that for which one labors, and one labors for that which one loves.

Dare dà più gioia che ricevere, non perché è privazione, ma perché in quell'atto mi sento vivo.

almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to

Modern man is starved for life.

Joy, then, is what we experience in the process of growing nearer to the goal of becoming ourselves.

People should not consider so much what they are to do as what they are. … Thus take care that your emphasis is laid on being good and not on the number or kind of things to be done. Emphasize rather the fundamentals on which your work rests.

Unless he belonged somewhere, unless his life had some meaning and direction, he would feel like a particle of dust and be overcome by his individual insignificance.

Tarih hiçbir ÅŸey deÄŸildir ve hiçbir ÅŸey yapmaz. Bir ÅŸey olan ve yapan, insand?r.

La meta del socialismo era la individualidad y no la uniformidad; la liberación de las ataduras económicas, no la realización de los objetivos materiales como primordial preocupación de la vida. Su principio era que cada ser humano es un fin en sí mismo, y jamás debe de ser el medio de otro hombre.

Was hatte er in dieser Stadt, in diesem verrückt gewordenen Steinbaukasten, zu suchen? Blumigen Unsinn schreiben, damit die Menschheit noch mehr Zigaretten rauchte als bisher? Den Untergang Europas konnte er auch dort abwarten, wo er geboren war. Das hatte er davon, dass er sich einbildete, der Globus drehe sich nur, solange er ihm zuschaue. Dieses lächerliche Bedürfnis, anwesend zu sein!

Wie gesagt, das Leben muss noch vor dem Tode erledigt werden.

The days, the weeks, the years out here shall come back again, and our dead comrades shall then stand up again and march with us, our heads shall be clear, we shall have a purpose, and so we shall march, our dead comrades beside us, the years at the Front behind us:—against whom, against whom?

Maailmas jätkub kõige jaoks kohta. Ainult mitte inimese jaoks.

Nachts ist man das, was man eigentlich sein soll; nicht das, was man geworden ist.

Was erwarten sie von uns, wenn eine Zeit kommt, wo kein Krieg ist? Jahre hindurch war unsere Beschäftigung Töten - es war unser erster Beruf im Dasein. Unser Wissen vom Leben beschränkt sich auf den Tod. Was soll danach noch geschehen? Und was soll aus uns werden?