Contact
Privacy
Category: purpose
Quotes of Category: purpose
TOP TAGS :safedealing-with-ittropicsgoblinsruby-dalystalinprologuemalaria

  1. Hermann Hesse _ Narcissus and Goldmund

    Because when a man tries to realize himself through the gifts with which nature has endowed him, he does the best and only meaningful thing he can do. That's why, in former days, I often said to you: don't try to imitate the thinker or the ascetic man, but be yourself, try to be yourself.
    book-quotelifepurpose

  2. Bret Easton Ellis _ The Informers

    Looking at Tim, one cannot help feeling great waves of uncertainty, an absence of aim, of purpose, as if he is a person who simply doesn't matter.
    book-quotepurposeuncertaintyennui

  3. Libba Bray _ The Sweet Far Thing

    Our days are numbered in the book of days, Most High," Gorgon murmurs as the garden comes once more into view. "That is what gives them sweetness and purpose.
    book-quotelifepurpose

  4. Lois Lowry _ Looking Back: A Book of

    Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own.
    book-quotelifepurposestories

  5. Yann Martel _ Life of Pi

    It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.
    book-quotepurposewholenessthe-struggle

  6. E.M. Forster _ Where Angels Fear to Tread

    You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish-not sit intending on a chair.
    book-quotepurposeresolve

  7. Khaled Hosseini _ And the Mountains Echoed

    Kažu pronađi svrhu u životu i ostvari je. Ali katkad, tek nakon što ga proživiš, uvidiš da je život imao svrhu, lako moguće onu o kojoj nisi nikad ni razmišljao.
    book-quotelifepurposeživot

  8. Daniel Defoe _ The True-Born Englishman: A

    When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,The good of subjects is the end of kings.
    book-quotegoodpurposenothing

  9. Madeleine L'Engle _ A Wind in the Door

    Mr Jenkins. Unique, as every star in the sky is unique, every leaf on every tree, every snowflake, every farandola, every cherubim, unique: Named.
    book-quotelovepurposeunique

  10. Kim Stanley Robinson _ Aurora

    We had a project on this trip back to the solar system, and that project was a labor of love. It absorbed all our operations entirely. It gave a meaning to our existence. And this is a very great gift; this, in the end, is what we think love gives, which is to say meaning. Because there is no very obvious meaning to be found in the universe, as far as we can tell. But a consciousness that cannot discern a meaning in existence is in trouble, very deep trouble, for at that point there is no organizing principle, no end to the halting problems, no reason to live, no love to be found. No: meaning is the hard problem.
    book-quotepurposemeaning-of-life

  11. Michael Cunningham _ The Snow Queen

    We worship numberless gods or idols, but we all need to be the grandest possible versions of ourselves, we need to walk across the face of the earth with as much grace and beauty as we can muster before we're wrapped in our winding sheets, and returned.
    book-quotelife-lessonslivingpurpose

  12. Daniel C. Dennett _ Darwin's Dangerous Idea:

    {T}he idea of treating Mind as an effect rather than as a First Cause is too revolutionary for some–an "awful stretcher" that their own minds cannot acommodate comfortably. This is as true today as it was in 1860, and it has always been as true of some of evolution's best friends as of its foes. For instance, the physicist Paul Davies, in his recent book , proclaims that the reflective power of human minds can be "no trivial detail, no minor by-product of mindless purposeless forces" {Davies 1992, p. 232}. This is a most revealing way of expressing a familiar denial, for it betrays an ill-examined prejudice. Why, we might ask Davies, would its being a by-product of mindless, purposeless forces make it trivial? Why couldn't the most important thing of all be something that arose from unimportant things? Why should the importance or excellence of have to rain down on it from on high, from something more important, a gift from God? Darwin's inversion suggests that we abandon that presumption and look for sorts of excellence, of worth and purpose, that can emerge, bubbling up out of "mindless, purposeless forces.
    book-quotepurposeevolutionnatural-selection
Categories