Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.
You must have an opinion about yourself, some kind of meaning to yourself, a purpose, if you are really going to learn anything or develop into that which you desire to be.
We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.
If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
For some reason, I always thought I was special. And for some reason, I always thought that I had a purpose in life: that I was supposed to contribute to the world.
You need to find your OWN purpose. I cannot BUILD desire.
Man exists for his own sake, and not to add a laborer to the State.
If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.
I didn't really get into the sport for fame. I didn't get into it to be this infamous guy that everybody worships. I got into this sport to make a difference.
He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
Life's objective is life itself.
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
If I don't stay creative and if I don't stay in the studio and keep writing and recording, I get kind of depressed. I can't quite remember what I'm supposed to be doing with myself.
Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.
I am not doing it just for the money or for you.I am doing it for me.
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories.
I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.
Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love's own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end.
Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life.
