#purpose

It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country. ↗

— Kim Y. Sam

#country #defend #developing #korea #need

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#government #instead #personality #purposeful #ruling

When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever. ↗

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

#forever #irreplaceable #killed #lives #moment

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#am #direction #doing #figure #happy

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#help #help others #human #human life #life

Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples. ↗

— John Searle

#examples #extensions #find #i #ice

If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#because #children #could #critical #die

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#conjunction #explain #hear #i #i am

I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#just #know #life #love #moment

Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#different #even #every #might #novelist