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The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

— Ernst Mach

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✓Similar Perspectives

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

— Oswald Spengler

A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.

— Salman Rushdie

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

— Stephen Covey

When you set a goal for yourself, you do what you need to.

— Johnny Van Zant

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

— Elie Wiesel

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

— Albert Schweitzer

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.

— Kallam Anji Reddy

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

— William Kingdon Clifford

✗Opposing Perspectives

Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.

— Joseph Brodsky