purpose-of-life

Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm

When we see marriage as our sole purpose, we find ourselves with nowhere to go when we finally arrive.

It is this brighter side, the romantic side, the emotional side, that appeals to me.

You know, the immortality of the soul, free will and all that -- it's all very amusing to talk about up to the age of twenty-two, but not after that. Then one ought to be giving one's mind to having fun without catching the pox, arranging one's life as comfortably as possible, having a few decent drawings on the wall, and above all writing well. That's the important thing: well-made sentences...and then a few metaphors. Yes, a few metaphors. They embellish a man's existence.

I have songs to write and songs to sing and planes to fly and I want to see my old yellow truck again.

there may be a time in one's lifethat might feel and brush against a sensitive touchthat might be the reminder and assurancethat what never is lost brings a meaning and purpose..LT

I'd finally reached the end of myself, all my self-reliance and denial and pride unraveling into nothingness, leaving only a blank Alison-shaped space behind. It was finished. I was done.But just as I felt myself dissolving on the tide of my own self-condemnation, the dark waves receded, and I floated into a celestial calm.I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for me to understand, and I knew I could never begin to grasp more than the smallest idea of its purpose. But I sensed that every part of it, from quark to quasar, was unique and - in some mysterious way - signifi

The point is, there is no point. Choose your own!

Why stay we on earth except to grow?

One person can make a difference, and every person should try.

Never allow anyone who has not invested in you to define you. You always need to see proof of a Return on Investment.

Always remember the primary purpose of your life is living in tune with your energy pattern, find the true expression for the energy and go with the flow!

Having a strong intent and purposes makes life worthwhile.

I want to make my mark,' he says.But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?

You may lose many things in the way you have chosen, don't look back but serve your purpose.

I keep finding myself confronted with the question, __hat is the aim of man__ life?_ and, no matter what result my reflections reach, no matter what I take to be life__ source, I invariably arrive at the conclusion that the purpose of our human existence is to afford a maximum of help towards the universal development of everything that exists.If I meditate as I contemplate nature, I perceive everything in nature to be in constant process of development, and each of nature__ constituent portions to be unconsciously contributing towards the development of others. But man is, though a like portion of nature, a portion gifted with consciousness, and therefore bound, like the other portions, to make conscious use of his spiritual faculties in striving for the development of everything existent.If I meditate as I contemplate history, I perceive the whole human race to be for ever aspiring towards the same end.If I meditate on reason, if I pass in review man__ spiritual faculties, I find the soul of every man to have in it the same unconscious aspiration, the same imperative demand of the spirit.If I meditate with an eye upon the history of philosophy, I find everywhere, and always, men to have arrived at the conclusion that the aim of human life is the universal development of humanity.If I meditate with an eye upon theology, I find almost every nation to be cognizant of a perfect existence towards which it is the aim of mankind to aspire.So I too shall be safe in taking for the aim of my existence a conscious striving for the universal development of everything existent. I should be the unhappiest of mortals if I could not find a purpose for my life, and a purpose at once universal and useful_ Wherefore henceforth all my life must be a constant, active striving for that one purpose.

And in that moment I experience a revelation.I realize now that it was a painful sense that the world is purposeless, the lazy fruit of a misunderstanding, but in that moment I was able to translate what I felt only as: "God does not exist.

They say, find a purpose in life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. And now that I had fulfilled mine, I felt aimless and adrift