Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.

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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

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The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight. — Epictetus

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

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Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

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Conspiracy adepts love story-tellers who want to exorcise their fear, mixing rational and irrational elements to construct a plausible narrative for people craving a meaningful decoding and a breathtaking clarification. ("What after bowling alone?" ) ― Erik Pevernagie

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Everyone wants me to be a morning person. I could be one, only if morning began after noon. — Tony Smite

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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. ― Ayn Rand,

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I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself with happy people. ― Rachel Machacek

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You couldn’t hide from bad things and pretend they didn’t exist, that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumble. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted. ― Sarah Cross

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