#purpose

What you seek is seeking you.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

For this is your business: to act well the character assigned you; to choose it belongs to another.

What would he have done under such circumstances? Obviously he would have rolled himself up in a blanket and slept.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

If the purpose of a dance were to get to a certain spot on the floor, the best dancer would be the one who got there the fastest.

The purpose of the eye is to see; the purpose of the flower is to bloom; the purpose of your life is simply to be.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

The most vital need of the modern soul is for a sense of meaning.

Without meaning, the life of man is an unendurable torment.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable—perhaps everything.

The god appointed me to the duty of leading the philosophical life, examining myself and examining others.

I spend my whole life in going about, persuading you not to care for your bodies or your wealth, but first and foremost to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

God has attached me to this city as to a great and noble horse which is sluggish by reason of its size and needs to be stirred by a gadfly.

Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Every craft and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

The end of labor is to gain leisure, and the end of war is to cultivate peace.

The life of money-making is a life of constraint, and wealth is clearly not the good we seek; for it is merely useful for the sake of something else.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, showing the kind of things a man chooses or avoids.

Nature does nothing in vain.

We make war that we may live in peace.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.