Quotes about Purpose

Alas! What are all these lives driven willy-nilly? Where are they going? Why are they like this? He who knows the answer to that, sees the darkness as a whole. He is alone. His name is God.

Monsieur Mayor," said the bishop, "that is just it. I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

I have no mission. No one has.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

All human beings have always aspired to an idyll, to that garden where nightingales sing, to that realm of harmony where the world does not rise up as a stranger against man and man against other men, but rather where the world and all men are shaped from one and the same matter. There, everyone is a note in a sublime Bach fugue, and anyone who refuses to be one is a mere useless and meaningless black dot that need only be caught and crushed between thumb and finger like a flea.

It was only an idea, a sudden flash, but it kept coming back to me, and I couldn't help thinking, why am I alive, what good is there in going on, but it's not true really, I didn't think anything of the sort, I was hardly thinking at all, I just imagined myself no longer alive and suddenly I felt such bliss, such strange bliss that I wanted to laugh and maybe really did begin to laugh.

Man stopped wanting to walk, to walk on his own feet and enjoy it. What's more he longer saw his own life as a road, but as a highway

If we only have one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.

A warrior never gives in to fear when he is searching for what he needs. Without love, he is nothing.

You are here to do something you are uniquely created for. No one else can do it like you can, that's why you're here