Quotes About Purpose

To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!

Quien no vive para algo, ha de vivir para alguien.

The advice to simplify our lives brings to mind William Morris' dictum that we should have nothing in our houses that we don't know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. More recently, Marie Kondo has suggested that unless an object 'sparks joy' in our heart, we should get rid of it.

Second, the purpose must be defined precisely, and not in a fashion that smuggles in the answer to the question before the decision-maker.

Fourth, except in the rare case of an obvious scrivener's error, purpose—even purpose as most narrowly defined—cannot be used to contradict text or to supplement it.

A statute limits the time for appeal to 60 days after judgment has been entered: The purpose is to close off appeal, and terminate the litigation, after 60 days. (The purposivist might find it to be closing off appeal after a reasonable time, which is specified as 60 days in normal circumstances—but special cir-cumstances may provide an exception.)

What wisdom and what virtue there is in judging oneself truly and in remaining oneself! You have a part that only you can play; and your business is to play it to perfection, instead of trying to force fortune. Our lives are not interchangeable. Equally by aiming too high and by falling too low, one misses the path to the goal. Go straight ahead, in your own way, with God for guide.

One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.

I asked myself not why I was alive but why I had lived. Out of expectation, I supposed, and wondered whether I still expected anything. It seemed I did. Something more is always expected.

Por qué?- Quiso saber- -¿Y por qué no?- repliqué"- El relato se detiene, hay un espacio en blanco. Se suspende oportunamente: la última frase es magnética, me ha retenido. En efecto, la cuestión no es por que me mataré, sino por qué no matarme.

Me pregunté, no por qué vivía, sino por qué había vivido. Supuse que por la espera y quise saber si aún esperaba algo. Me pareció que sí. Siempre se espera más

Verus Quid Factum

Bueno es saber que los vasos nos sirven para beber; lo malo es que no sabemos para qué sirve la sed.

Difícil es interpretar los sueños que desatan el haz de nuestros propósitos para mezclarlos con recuerdos y temores.(...)Son estos sueños memorias de lo pasado, que teje y confunde la mano torpe y temblorosa de un personaje invisible: el miedo".

He is summoned not by her desire but by the fact of her existence.

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

Buscando lo que deseo voy perdiendo el deseo de lo que busco.

Sí, es necesario padecer, aun en vano, para no vivir en vano.

Eres cuanto te necesitan, no cuanto eres.