Quotes About Purpose

Only slight goals are worth pursuing, because only a slight goal can be entirely fulfilled.

Que fiz eu da vida? Fiz o que ela fez de mim...

If there's no earth in heaven, then let's not bother with heaven. Far better for everything to turn out to be nothing and for this plotless novel to end there.

Por qué es bello el arte? Porque es inútil ¿Por qué es tan fea la vida? Porque en ella todo son fines y propósitos.

Dac?,din întâmplare,aceast? lume e o greÅŸeal? iar eu sunt adev?rat? Dac? lumea e o greÅŸeal? înseamn? c? este o greÅŸeal? a tuturor oamenilor. Åži fiecare dintre noi este cel puÅ£in greÅŸeala fiec?ruia dintre noi. Dar de ce îmi pun eu întreb?ri,dac? nu pentru c? sunt bolnav?

With Destiny driving the wagon of everything down the road of nothing.

Happiness is the certainty that our life is not going in vain.

Pues bien, quizá la felicidad tenga que ver también con la habilidad o la sabiduría para retrasar el máximo tiempo posible esta desgana de vivir.

Ya sabes lo que es un «motivo» en el sentido que recibe la palabra en este contexto: es la razón que tienes o al menos crees tener para hacer algo

El sentido de todo, el lugar donde él estará para siempre.

I'm not attached to anything. I'm attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.

You know, Daddy said, it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!

Don't let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story-just like the typewriter was mine.

I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.

She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint...

I am largely worried about wingless chickens. I feel this is the time for me to fulfill myself by stepping in and saving the chicken but I don't know how exactly since I am not bold. I only know I believe in the complete chicken. You think about the complete chicken for a while.

You can't just say NO, he said. You got to do NO. You got to show it. You got to show you mean it by doing it. You got to show you're not going to do one thing by doing another. You got to make an end of it. One way or another.

Freedom is of no use without taste and without the ordinary competence to follow the particular laws of what we have been given to do.

if you know who you are, you can go anywhere.

You have to stop confusing a madness with a mission

You do not write the best you can for the sake of art but for the sake of returning your talent increased to the invisible God, to use or not use as He sees fit.