Purpose and Meaning of Life

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

For my purpose holds

 

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have enough of it.

The joy of life is to put out one’s power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. J. R. R.

 

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.

Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’: aim at earth and you will get neither.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.

So many worlds, so much to do,

 

If we find the answer to that [why it is that we and the universe exist], it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would know the mind of God.

 

It’s not the basic I that the poet is after but the essential you.

 

I am Merlin Who follow the Gleam.

 

Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King— Else, wherefore born?

 

One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.

 

Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.