Quotes About Purpose

BaÅŸar?s?zl?k deÄŸil, amaçs?zl?k suçtur. Hepimizin idealleri olmal? ve hepsini baÅŸaramasak da onlar? gerçekleÅŸtirmek için uÄŸraÅŸmal?y?z. Onlar olmasa hayat çekilmez olurdu. Oysa yaÅŸam? muhteÅŸem k?lan ÅŸey ideallerimizdir

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting

Je suppose qu'il serait difficile d'envisager de la garder. - Il n'en est pas question ! A quoi pourrait-elle bien nous servir ? - Nous pourrions peut-être, nous, lui servir à quelque chose, lança Matthew, abruptement.

We would reach the far-off divine event and look out thence to the aerial spires of our City of Fulfillment.

The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.

To pray is to think about the meaning of life.

Vi känner att även när alla möjliga vetenskapliga frågor har besvarats, så har våra livsproblem inte ens blivit berörda. Då återstår förstås inte heller någon fråga - och just det är svaret.

Unsere Zivilisation ist durch das Wort Fortschritt charakterisiert. Der Fortschritt ist ihre Form nicht eine ihrer Eigenschaften daß sie fortschrietet. Sie ist typisch aufbauend. Ihre Tätigkeit ist es ein immer komplizierteres Gebilde zu konstruieren. Und auch die Klarheit dient doch nur wieder diesem Zweck und ist nicht Selbstzweck. Mir dagegen ist die Klarheit, die Durchsichtigkeit, Selbstzweck.

Il senso della vita, cioè il senso del mondo, possiamo chiamarlo Dio. Pregare è pensare al senso della vita.

Siamo o non siamo su un'invisibile trottolina, cui fa da ferza un fil di sole, su un granellino di sabbia impazzito che gira e gira e gira, senza saper perché, senza pervenir mai a destino, come se ci provasse gusto a girar così, per farci sentire ora un po' più di caldo, ora un po' più di freddo, e per farci morire – spesso con la coscienza d'aver commesso una sequela di piccole sciocchezze – dopo cinquanta o sessanta giri?

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Nati vivi, volevano vivere.

Are we or are we not on an invisible spinning top, whipped by a thread of sunlight, on a grain of crazed sand which turns and turns without ever knowing why, without ever reaching a destination, as if it enjoyed turning like that, to make us feel a little colder or warmer, and make us die (often feeling that we have merely carried out a series of meaningless gestures) after fifty or sixty years?

We want to live. THE MANAGER (ironically). For Eternity? THE FATHER No, sir, only for a moment... in you.

Io, insomma, dovevo vivere, vivere, vivere.

We act that rôle for which we have been cast, that rôle which we are given in life. And in my own case, passion itself, as usually happens, becomes a trifle theatrical when it is exalted.

No sir, no. We act that role for which we have been cast, that role which we are given in life. And in my own case, passion itself, as usually happens, becomes a trifle theatrical when it is exalted.

That is the prize: to realize, at the end, that every minute was worth fighting for with every ounce of blood and fire.

Big Angel could not reconcile himself to this dirty deal they had all been dealt. Death. What a ridiculous practical joke. Every old person gets the punch line that the kids are too blind to see. All the striving, lusting, dreaming, suffering, working, hoping, yearning, mourning, suddenly revealed itself to be an accelerating countdown to nightfall. ....This is the prize: to realize, at the end, that every minute was worth fighting for with every ounce of blood and fire.

I had no particular purpose in mind, which was never a good way to do things.

Humans are born to discover their own purpose, not to have some mockery of it handed to them. They are born to become magicians.

How easy it is to feel paralyzed by obligations. How easy it is to feel lost and insignificant and unable to know what is best, to feel adrift while yearning for purpose.

What you needed more than anything, for the purposes of ambition, was certainty, was a belief that the rest of being, the entirety of the cosmos, should not be allowed to penetrate and divert you from the cause--the chief and primary cause, which was, clearly, yourself.