Quotes About Purpose

The question of how to spend my life, of what my life is for, is a question posed only to me, and I can no more delegate the responsibility for answering it than I can delegate the task of dying.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

There is no work so mean, but it would amply serve me to furnish me with sustenance.

Factories find work so meaningless they dream of being torn down even before they're built.

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.

Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but looking outward in the same direction

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like a cake. Time is substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life.

If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go.

That's the whole challenge of life - to act with honor and hope and generosity, no whatter what you've drawn. You can't help when or what you were born, you may not be able to help how you die; but you can - and you should - try to pass the days between as a good man.