purpose of life Quotes

“Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”

“Just breathing isn’t living!”

“During the whole underside of her life, ever since her first memory, Eleanor had been waiting for something like Hill House. Caring for her mother, lifting a cross old lady from her chair to her bed, setting out endless little trays of soup and oatmeal, steeling herself to the filthy laundry, Eleanor had held fast to the belief that someday something would happen.”

“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult to each other?”

“Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way I approach what I do. It also helped me not to confuse who I am with what I do.”

“Men are born for games. Nothing else.”

″[...] So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason too.”

“Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.”

“Death doesn’t make life pointless, but rather purposeful.”

“The difference between a garden and a graveyard is only what you choose to put in the ground” ...

“Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.”

“Nobody finishes well by accident.”

“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture—that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.”