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Quotes About Purpose

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
~ Audrey Hepburn
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
as soon as a work of art is of practical use, betrays a purpose or a tendency its beauty vanishes.
~ August Strindberg
Nothing is wasted of time if you use the xperience wisely.
~ Auguste Rodin
The purpose of all war is peace.
~ Augustine of Hippo
Todos deberíamos, en algún momento de la existencia, cuestionar nuestra propia vida. Quien no lo hace será esclavo de su rutina, será controlado por ella y nunca verá nada más allá del velo del sistema. Vivirá para trabajar, cumplir obligaciones profesionales, tener un papel social pero terminará sucumbiendo en el vacío. Vivirá para sobrevivir hasta la llegada de la muerte.
~ Augusto Cury
Ser feliz não é um acaso do destino, mas uma conquista existencial...
~ Augusto Cury
Compreender que sonhos sem disciplina produzem pessoas frustradas; disciplina sem sonhos produz autômatos, que só obedecem a ordens.
~ Augusto Cury
a maior loucura é viver sem um sentido existencial. Sem sentido, vivemos por viver, a vida não tem brilho, o caos não nos amadurece, a cultura não nos remete à sabedoria. Sem propósito, a mesa, por mais farta que seja, nutre o corpo, mas deixa faminta a alma. Sem propósito, vivemos num campo de concentração mental, ainda que rodeados por jardins. Não tenha medo de morrer em Auschwitz, tenha medo de viver uma existência sem sentido.
~ Augusto Cury
Always know the value of your time, don't waste it on frivolous things.
~ Aurora Berill
Fight for quality not quantity. Quality is a way more satisfying.
~ Aurora Berill
I ask of life to shine meaning in everyone who is searching.
~ Aurora Hernandez
Self-love in complete perspective, serves its own invincible purpose of ecstasy. Supreme bliss simulating opposition is its balance. It suffers no hurt, neither does it labour. Is it not self-attracting and independent? Assuredly we cannot call it balance.
~ Austin Osman Spare
Know ye what ye want? What ye ask? Know ye virtue from maniacal muttering? Sin from folly? Desiring a teacher, who among ye are worthy to learn? Brutally shall I teach the gospel of soul-suicide, of contraception, not preservation and procreation. Fools! Ye have made vital the belief the Ego is eternal, fulfilling a purpose, not lost to you.
~ Austin Osman Spare
Know my purpose: To be a stranger unto myself, the enemy of truth. Uncertain of what ye believe, belike ye half-desire?
~ Austin Osman Spare
When you doubt your ability to make a difference just remember you are alive for a reason.
~ Austin Wright
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.
~ Australian Aboriginal Proverb
Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.
~ Author Unknown
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
~ Author Unknown
The shortest answer is the doing the thing.
~ Author Unknown
Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.
~ Author Unknown
Width of life is more important than length of life.
~ Avicenna
God created him first with two faces, and separated them" (1:27).
~ Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Finally Abdellahi Moussa Boqor asked, "So why are you doing this?" I paused for a moment, and then the words just came out of my mouth. "It is the will of the soul," I said. "The soul cannot be coerced.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali