Quotes About Purpose

If you want to live a happy life tie it to goal. Not to people or things.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ~ Albert Einstein

What you can count, doesn't count for much. What you cannot count, counts for everything

Le persone iniziano a vivere per la prima volta solo quando diventano capaci di non vivere per se stesse

Herhangi bir ders veya hobiye duyulan sevginin, gorev duygusundan daha iyi bir ogretmen olduguna inaniyorum; en azindan kendim acisindan.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value

What's your next step, my friend? If you know, tell me quickly so that I may adopt your method with all speed.

I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as well dwell on the work of our teeth or on the mechanics of our walk. It is there, it will always be there, and I don't intend to spend my glorious hours looking over my shoulder to see death's icy face.

we can learn from its splendid ambition that what was one man's experience can become, through the alchemy of words, the experience of all, and how that experience, distilled once again into words, can serve each singular reader for some secret, singular purpose.

Whatever we accomplish in life, if it's solely for our own good, then it doesn't mean that much. The things you do that affect others in a positive way are the ones that count. Whatever facet of life you're in, God has given you a gift; do the best you can with that gift.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

And that, put in the Director sententiously, that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

I don't care where I'm from. Nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.

Groups are capable of being as moral and inteligent as the individuals who form them; a crowd is chaotic, has no purpose of its own, and is capable of anything except inteligent action and realistic thinking. Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

The last end of man, the ultimate reason for human existence, is unitive knowledge of the divine Ground

Éste es el secreto de la felicidad: amar lo que uno tiene que hacer.[...] lograr que la gente ame su inevitable destino social.

And yet our personal experience and the study of history make it abundantly clear that the means whereby we try to achieve something are at least as important as the end we wish to attain. Indeed they are even more important. For the means employed inevitably determine the nature of the result achieved; whereas, however good the end aimed at may be, its goodness is powerless to counteract the effects of the bad means we use to reach it.

It is not enough for the phrases to be good., what you make with them ought to be good too.

There are times, and this is one of them, when the world seems purposefully beautiful, when it is as though some mind in things had suddenly chosen to make manifest, for all who choose to see, the supernatural reality that underlies all appearances.

Éste es el secreto de la felicidad y la virtud: Amar lo que uno tiene que hacer. Todo condicionamiento tiende a esto: a lograr que la gente ame su inevitable destino social.

the first question to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thought or action contribute to, or interfere with, the achievement, by me and the greatest possible number of other individuals, of man's Final End?

Bu da, diye veciz bir ifadeyle ekledi Müdür, mutluluk ve erdemin s?rr?d?r- yapmak zorunda olduÄŸun ÅŸeyi sevmek. Tüm ÅŸartland?rmalar?n amac? budur: insanlara, kaç?n?lmaz toplumsal yazg?lar?n? sevdirmek.

You'll have a better understanding of what was actually done if you start by knowing what had to be done - what always and everywhere has to be done by anyone who has a clear idea about what's what.