Quotes About Purpose

The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.

Eisenhower insisted, every man and woman not on the front lines, must see this. "We are told the American soldier does not know what he is fighting for. Now, at least, he will know what he is fighting against."11 Patton

believed it was better to assume the burden of leadership than to drift along in the shadows.

To accept this work today is to assert the purpose of the people of America that the freedom of the human spirit and human mind which has produced the world's great art and all its science—shall not be utterly destroyed. —President Franklin D.

Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this visible world, the addition of an infinite amount more of the same isn't about to somehow make it any more meaningful! Add a whole string of zeroes to a zero and watch what happens.

If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.

If there was no God to hear it, what difference did it make? But if there was . . .

Because he knew in his very bones that there could be no reason, nor any special purpose, for a Divinity. Mankind had made it all up out of whole cloth because, at bottom, everyone was afraid of the dark, afraid of ultimate extinction, afraid to face the fact that individual lives meant nothing in the grand scheme of a vast and utterly indifferent cosmos.

But Einstein knew that its central thesis was wrong. Why? Because he knew in his very bones that there could be no reason, nor any special purpose, for a Divinity. Mankind had made it all up out of whole cloth because, at bottom, everyone was afraid of the dark, afraid of ultimate extinction, afraid to face the fact that individual lives meant nothing in the grand scheme of a vast and utterly indifferent cosmos.

If the world is rationally constructed and has meaning," Kurt said, his head down as he carefully lifted a single strand of spaghetti from his plate, "then there must be such a thing as an afterlife. Otherwise, what is the meaning of this one?" "Oh, Kurt," Adele said, "why must everything have a meaning? Maybe we are just here to eat spaghetti and talk and laugh and," she paused, replenishing her glass and raising it to her host, "drink good wine.

There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.

Life is absurd. But there is one meaningful thing, one inarguable thing, and that is that there is suffering. Fine writing helps alleviate that suffering – and anything that puts meaning and beauty into the world in the form of story, helps people to live with more peace and purpose and balance, is deeply worthwhile.

If the scene is about what the scene is about, you're in deep shit.

The PROTAGONIST has a conscious desire.

Do I bludgeon my brains against this wall or do I find some way to get through my days with value?

For while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also the case that the unlived life isn't worth examining.

while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining.