Quotes About Purpose

Life is what we do with it. Trips are travelers. What we see is not what we see, but what we are.

To act – that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace until it's built

Hours of ashen wit, days of spatial longing, inner centuries of outer landscapes … And we did not ask ourselves what it was for, because we took pleasure in knowing that it wasn't for anything.

I've done nothing nor will I ever do anything useful to justify my existence.

Everything is worth it, when your soul is not small

Let us always search for the impossible, since that is our destiny, and let us search for it by way of the useless, since no path goes by any other way, but let us rise to the consciousness that nothing we search for can be found, and that nothing along the way deserves a fond kiss or memory.

El tedio no es la enfermedad del aburrimiento por no tener nada que hacer, sino la enfermedad más grave de sentir que no vale la pena hacer nada.

When a man reaches the age of lucidity, one of his main concerns is to actively and thoughtfully shape himself into the image and likeness of his ideal.

another day, life and its fictitious usefulness and vain activity;

A boat would seem to be an object whose one purpose is to travel, but its real purpose is not to travel but to reach harbour. We found ourselves on the high seas, with no idea of which port we should be aiming for.

Some have a great dream in life that they never accomplish. Others have no dream, and likewise never accomplish it.

Uno lee para saber, inútilmente. Otro se divierte para vivir, inútilmente.

Que tens tu que te ligue à vida?

Porque no vayáis a creer que escribo para publicar, ni para escribir, ni siquiera por hacer arte. Escribo porque ese es el fin, la perfección suprema, la perfección temperamentalmente ilógica [...] de mi cultivo de estados del alma.

Pero ¿de verdad vivimos? Vivir sin saber qué es la vida, ¿será vivir?.

Ever since I was a child, the intrinsic futility of all forms of action has been a cherished touchstone for my detachment from everything, including me.

Ä°stemeden var?m ve istemeden öleceÄŸim. OlduÄŸum ÅŸeyle olmad???m ÅŸey aras?nda, hayal ettiÄŸim ÅŸeyle hayat?n beni yapt??? ÅŸey aras?nda bir boÅŸluÄŸum.

L?udat fie Domnul pentru faptul c? nu sunt bun, Åži c? am egoismul natural al florilor Sau al râurilor ce îÅŸi urmeaz? calea Preocupate f?r? s?-ÅŸi de-a seama Doar s? înfloreasc? sau s? curg? la vale. Iat? singura misiune pe-aceast? lume, Asta ÅŸi numai asta- adic? a exista cât se poate de clar, Åži a ÅŸti s? o faci f?r? s? te gândeÅŸti c? exiÅŸti.

I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist. I paced from one side of the room to the other, dreaming out loud incoherent and impossible things – deeds I'd forgotten to do, hopeless ambitions haphazardly realized, fluid and lively conversations which, were they to be, would already have been.

Derdimiz gönül eÄŸlendirmekse, hata etmiÅŸ olaca??z. Tek yapt???m?z sevmekse, ölebiliriz.

We achieve nothing. Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, 'Look at me move.

What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened to everyone or to us alone; if the former it has no novelty value and if the latter it will be incomprehensible.

No soy nada. Nunca seré nada. No puedo querer ser nada. Aparté de esto, tengo en mí todos los sueños del mundo.

Repara bem que a obra que te propões fazer é a mais alta de todas. Sonhar é encontramo-nos. Vais ser o Colombo da tua alma. Vais buscar as suas paisagens. Cuida bem pois em que o teu rumo seja certo e não possam errar os teus instrumentos.