The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content. – Ludwig Wittgenstein [see Dostoyevsky]
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. – Washington Irving
You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation. – George Bernard Shaw
A useless life is an early death. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When he walks he casts a shadow of purpose. – Terri Guillemets
I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. – Seneca
Begin each day as if it were on purpose. – Author Unknown
Never ask, “What reason do I have to be happy?” Instead ask, “To what purpose can I attach my happiness?” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. – Alan Coren, The Sanity Inspector, 1974
Battle doesnt need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. – Proverb
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. – James Allen
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. – Natalie Clifford Barney
Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone elses footsteps. – Gita Bellin
One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house f the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. Psalms 27:4 – Bible
Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel. Philippians 1:27 – Bible
