Quotes About Purpose

It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.

To be mature you have to realize what you value most. Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.

Where is it written that lives should have a meaning?

To write, you have to want something to survive you.

Diventare. Era un verbo che mi aveva sempre ossessionata [...]. Io volevo diventare, anche se non avevo mai saputo cosa. Ed ero diventata, questo era certo, ma senza oggetto, senza una vera passione, senza un'ambizione determinata.

The conclusion we drew from this convinced us that it was best to do everything on purpose, deliberately, so that you would know what to expect.

he's no one. And for a person who is no one to become someone is more important than anything else.

I have to relearn—I said to myself—the tranquil pace of those who believe they know where they're going and why.

En el mundo no había nada que ganar, que su vida estaba llena de aventuras diferentes y desatinadas igual que la mía, y que el tiempo sencillamente se escurre sin sentido alguno

Devo reimparare il passo tranquillo di chi crede di sapere dove sta andando e perché

And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.

Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me, but I realized it for the first time only in that situation. I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.

That he's no one. And for a person who is no one to become someone is more important than anything else.

Você se engana, a verdade é que tudo parece já feito e você não tem nenhum bom motivo para se esforçar. Sente apenas a culpa pelo que você é sem ter merecido.

I felt that not only in my book but in novels in general there was something that truly agitated me, a bare and throbbing heart . . . But was that what I wanted? To write, to write with purpose, to write better than I had already? And to study the stories of the past and the present to understand how they worked, and to learn, learn everything about the world with the sole purpose of constructing living hearts . . .

Where is it written that lives should have a meaning? So she began to disparage all that struggle of mine to write. She said mockingly: Is the meaning that line of black markings that look like insect shit?

Ernest's mistake is to succeed by prudently respecting the rules of an old, well-known game; Gertrude's virtue is to succeed by sticking to the old, well-known game but in order to disrupt it and bend it to her purposes.

Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me...I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.

Manchmal scheitern wir in der Tat, und ich glaube fast, dieses prinzipielle Scheitern ist unser letztes Ziel.

Samo te smrt može sprije?iti da se posvetiš umjetnosti.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.