For my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars, until I die.
Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding.