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Quotes About Purpose

Valeu a pena? Tudo vale a pena Se a alma não é pequena.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Duas vezes jurei ser O que julgo que sou, Só para desconhecer Que não sei para onde vou.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Algunos tienen en la vida un gran sueño y faltan a ese sueño. Otros no tienen en la vida sueño alguno, y a ese faltan también.
~ Fernando Pessoa
One man reads in order to know, all in vain. Another enjoys himself in order to live, again all in vain.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Pon todo lo que eres en lo mínimo que hagas
~ Fernando Pessoa
A ship may seem to be an object whose purpose is to sail, but no, its purpose is to reach a port.
~ Fernando Pessoa
How I'd love to infect at least one soul with some kind of poison, worry or disquiet! This would console me a little for my chronic failure to take action. My life's purpose would be to pervert. But do my words ring in anyone else's soul? Does anyone hear them besides me?
~ Fernando Pessoa
I was not meant for reality, it was life that sought me out.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Some say there's no life without hope, others that hope makes life meaningless.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Don't imagine that I write just to write, or to publish, or to produce art. I write because this is the final goal, the supreme refinement, the temperamentally illogical refinement, of my cultivation of states of mind and feeling.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Living is pointless. Only looking is worthwhile. If I could look without living, I would achieve happiness, but that's impossible, as is everything we dream about. How ecstatic the ecstasy that did not involve life!
~ Fernando Pessoa
I had great ambitions and extravagant dreams, but so did the errand boy and the seamstress, for everyone has dreams; the only difference is whether or not we have the strength to fulfil them or a destiny that will fulfil them through us.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Viver não é necessário,; o necessário é criar.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Se que he sido error y extravío, que no he vivido nunca, que solamente he existido porque he matado el tiempo con conciencia y pensamiento.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Tedium is not a sickness brought on by the boredom of having nothing to do but the worse sickness of feeling that nothing is worth doing. And thus, the more one has to do the worse the tedium
~ Fernando Pessoa
And so we were left, each man to himself, in the desolation of feeling ourselves live. A ship may seem to be an object whose purpose is to sail, but no, its purpose is to reach a port. We found ourselves sailing without any idea of what port we were supposed to reach. Thus we reproduced a painful version of the argonauts' adventurous precept: living doesn't matter, only sailing does.
~ Fernando Pessoa
better to supremely not act than to act spottily, inadequately and in vain, like the superfluous, inane, vast majority of men.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Death guides us, death seeks us out, death accompanies us. All we have is Death, all we want is Death, Death is all we want to want.
~ Fernando Pessoa
E, por fim, tenho sono, porque, não sei porquê, acho que o sentido é dormir.
~ Fernando Pessoa
El dominio más grande de sí mismo es la indiferencia por si mismo, considerando alma y cuerpo la casa y la finca donde el Destino ha querido que pasemos nuestra vida.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Eis-me aqui! O que há para mim senão vacuidade No mundo (...), o que me destinastes? O vazio? O silêncio? A escuridão? Desses-me o instinto deles, não a plena Torturação da luz.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Por que fiz eu dos sonhos a minha única vida?
~ Fernando Pessoa
I came here for no reason, as with everything in life.
~ Fernando Pessoa
ella todo son fines y propósitos.
~ Fernando Pessoa