Quotes About Purpose

I realize that humans cannot bear very much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your heads into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you live outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature. Muad'Dib came to tell you about that. Without understanding his message, you cannot revere him!

People always want something more than immediate joy or that deeper sense called happiness. This is one of the secrets by which we shape the fulfillment of our designs. The something more assumes amplified power with people who cannot give it a name or who (most often the case) do not even suspect its existence. Most people only react unconsciously to such hidden forces. Thus, we have only to call a calculated something more into existence, define it and give it shape, then people will follow.

The Zensunni approach to birth, he said, urging her even faster, is to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension. Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows—a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose.

Life is not an option, it is a gift. Death is the option.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now, it's complete because it's ended here.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree, he thought. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me—all bearing for someone else to pick.

Humans live best when each has his place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.

This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life. I live now for my young Duke and the daughter yet to be. She

The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less. We

Indeed, it was the Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism.

For now my grief is heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

Let us not bandy philosophical nonsense. Every question can be boiled down to the one: Why is there anything?

Cualquier camino que se sigue con exactitud hasta el fin, conduce con la misma exactitud a ninguna parte. Escalad la montaña solo un poco para comprobar que es una montaña. Desde la cima, no podréis ver la montaña».

Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.

What are you saying? Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' Moneo opened his mouth but closed it without speaking. 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves. Moneo! Uncover yourself!

He could close his eyes and recall the shouts of the crowds. So that is what they hope, he thought. And he remembered what the old Reverend Mother had said: Kwisatz Haderach. The memories touched his feelings of terrible purpose, shading this strange world

Ljudi najbolje žive kad svatko ima svoje mjesto, kad svatko zna kamo spada u shemi sustava i što može posti?i. Uništi to mjesto i uništio si osobu.

For every veteran who returns with a new sense of destiny ('I survived; that must be God's purpose') more come home with barely submerged bitterness, ready to take 'the easy way' because they saw so much of it in the stresses of war.

Indeed? Pardon me for not listening further but I am really on an urgent errand.

A victory is useless unless it reflects your deepest wishes.

The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.