 The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
– Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
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Tag Archives: purpose
Garrison Keillor – Cats are intended to teach
| Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
– Garrison Keillor (1942-) |
Blaise Pascal – Nothing so insupportable to man
 There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerlessness, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.
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Richard Dawkins – DNA neither cares nor knows
 The universe we obey has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference . . .DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
– Richard Dawkins (1941 -) |
Carl Jung – The sole purpose of human existence
 As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
Aristotle – The meaning and purpose of life
 Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
– Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) |
Stephen Hawking – Three pieces of advice
 One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
– Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) |
Ronald Reagan – Welfare’s purpose
 Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
– Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
Carl Jung – Significance in the afternoon of human life
| The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Music is an asylum
 So is music an asylum. It takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence and whereto. All the great interrogatories, like questioning angels, float in on its waves of sound.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
Anatole France – Another life that will last forever
| The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. |
Nick Trout – It may be a cat, a bird, a ferret
 It may be a cat, a bird, a ferret, or a guinea pig, but the chances are high that when someone close to you dies, a pet will be there to pick up the slack. Pets devour the loneliness. They give us purpose, responsibility, a reason for getting up in the morning, and a reason to look to the future. They ground us, help us escape the grief, make us laugh, and take full advantage of our weakness by exploiting our furniture, our beds, and our refrigerator. We wouldn’t have it any other way. Pets are our seat belts on the emotional roller coaster of life–they can be trusted, they keep us safe, and they sure do smooth out the ride.
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