Quotes About Purpose

Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary.

The World exists for you ; Build therefore your own world

I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding. My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.

This time, like all times, is a very good time - if we but know what to do with it

The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, -- that we find we have (a common Nature) -- one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.

In God, every end is converted into a new means. Thus the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.

A man is fed, not that he may be fed, but that he may work.

Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray.

for the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

It is not length of life, but depth of life

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

The Purpose-Guided Universe by Bernard Haisch and You Are the Universe by Deepak Chopra and Menas Kafatos.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you lived and lived well.

My life is not an apology, but a life.

Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon?

WHOEVER considers the final cause of the world, will discern a multitude of uses that result. They all admit of being thrown into one of the following classes; Commodity; Beauty; Language; and Discipline. Under the general name of Commodity, I rank all those advantages which our senses owe to nature. This, of course, is a benefit which is temporary and mediate, not

Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark, Quarrel or reprimand: 'Twill soon be dark; Up, heed thine own aim, and God speed the mark!