If one gets on with the job that lies to hand, the ultimate purpose of the job fades into insignificance.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon and the day after that, and the next thirty years?
What was the point of worshipping a god if he did not help you?
Though all things in society as well as in the universe are said to have a purpose, there do exist here below certain beings whose purpose and utility seem inexplicable.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning DESIRE to possess it.
Only one word more concerning the desire to teach the world what it ought to be. For such a purpose philosophy at least always comes too late.
No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.
Man is for woman a means: the purpose is always the child.
It is at times like this that I know what my purpose is in life. I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return. I am here because there is no other place to be.
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything left for us to do.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
