Individual purpose Quotes

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

When I came to Mumbai, I only wanted to be an actor, and my approach hasn't digressed over the years. I never really hoped to be in the limelight or wanted to be a star.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.

A soul needs a purpose to live and so I concluded that my purpose was to kill everyone besides myself. I felt alive. --Gaara

Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authentic man who can offer his full, undivided presence.

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

You need to find your OWN purpose. I cannot BUILD desire.

You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.

Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or nature a death, but nature will collect anyway, and we certainly owe mediocrity nothing, whatever collectivity it purports to advance or at least represent.

Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking admittance but me?' The doorkeeper perceives that the man is nearing his end and his hearing is failing, so he bellows in his ear: 'No one but you could gain admittance through this door, since this door was intended for you. I am now going to shut it.

Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive.

Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself.

The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.

The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

You know," he said with unusual somberness, "I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren't big like humans and elves. I really wanted to be big," he said softly and for a moment he was quiet. "What did your father say?" asked Fizban gently. "He said kenders were small because we were meant to do small things. 'If you look at all the big things in the world closely,' he said, 'you'll see that they're really made up of small things all joined together.' That big dragon down there comes to nothing but tiny drops of blood, maybe. It's the small things that make the difference.

Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.

I believe if everyone fulfilled their deepest life purpose, the world would work perfectly.