Quotes About Purpose

Let us not bandy philosophical nonsense. Every question can be boiled down to the one: 'Why is there anything?' Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?

Penso na alegria que é estar vivo e me pergunto se chegarei a dar o salto interior até a raiz deste corpo e conhecer a mim mesmo como um dia foi. A raiz está lá. Se algum ato meu conseguirá encontrá-la isso continua emaranhado no futuro. Mas todas as coisas que um homem é capaz de fazer a mim pertencem. Qualquer ato meu poderia fazê-lo.

Oamenii o duc cel mai bine când fiecare îÈ™i are locul s?u, când fiecare È™tie ce reprezint? el în rânduiala lucrurilor È™i ce poate înf?ptui. Distruge acest loc È™i vei distruge individul.

holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.   —

What is happening in the universe and multiverse today is determined by the goal in the far future that has been set for the universe and the multiverse.

A job is death without dignity.

I'll make it. I won't die. I've got too much I have to do to let myself die.

Ak nebudeme žiadaÃ…Â¥ vesmír o veci, ktoré nám nemôže daÃ…Â¥, nezdrví nás realita. Nepotrebujeme jediný a definitívny dôvod života. Posta?í aj ?ubovo?né množstvo menÅ¡ích.

In short, the goal of the gospel is not to get you out of hell and into heaven, but to get God out of heaven and into you so that He may be displayed visibly and glorified in His creation.

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

What am I doing here in this endless winter?

There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

I am nothing but literature, and can and want to be nothing else.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

all that matters is that the wound fit the arrow

All he wanted to do now was to get up quietly and undisturbed, get dressed, and, most important, eat breakfast, and only then consider what to do next, because, as he was well aware, in bed he could never think of anything through to a reasonable conclusion.

Beni engelleyenin olgular olduÄŸu pek söylenemez, bir korku, a??labilmesi olanaks?z bir korku var: mutlu olmaktan korkmak, daha yüce bir amaç için kendine ac? verme tutkusu ve buyruÄŸu.

He is a land surveyor, well, perhaps that is something, he has trained at something, but if there's nothing you can do with that training then it means nothing.

Hers was a nature made for intrigue, apparently working for no purpose, like the wind, according to strange and distant orders of which no one ever got a sight.

En el portón me detuvo para preguntarme: «¿Hacia dónde cabalga el señor?». «No lo sé -respondí-. Sólo quiero irme de aquí, solamente irme de aquí. Sólo así puedo alcanzar mi meta.» «¿Conoce, pues, su meta?», preguntó él. «Sí -contesté yo-. Lo he dicho ya. Salir de aquí, ésa es mi meta.»

Por qué agotarse, pues, desde ya hasta el límite de las fuerzas? Ello tendría sentido si se pudiera esperar que la torre fuera construida en el lapso de una generación.

Whatever it's actually been, I felt declassed; people who have not lazed away at least part of their time up to their twenty-fifth year are greatly to be pitied, for it's my belief that it's not the money you have earned that you take with you into your grave, but your idle time.

Der wahre Weg geht über ein Seil, das nicht in der Höhe gespannt ist, sondern knapp über dem Boden. Es scheint mehr bestimmt stolpern zu machen, als begangen zu werden.

Der Tod ist vor uns, etwa wie im Schulzimmer an der Wand ein Bild der Alexanderschlacht. Es kommt darauf an, durch unsere Taten noch in diesem Leben das Bild zu verdunkeln oder gar auszulöschen.