When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable

“I can’t keep giving my will into other people hands no more, ain’t? I have to decide what I want to do for myself.” No answer. It wasn’t going to tell her.

Life is about not knowing and then doing something anyway.

They say, this is what you need because you have not articulated your own needs in a manner that you can present it so that it will be addressed. The continent also has not understood its part in solving its own problems, nobody will do it for you. You’re going to have to rise and do it yourself.

The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us.

You were to suffer your fate. That was not necessarily to know it.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

“What work have I got to do, then?” said Will, but went on at once, “No, on second thought, don’t tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it’ll feel as if I didn’t have a choice, and if I don’t do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.” “Then you have already taken the first steps toward wisdom,” said Xaphania.

Look the point is ... er, what is the point? It is a tough job but somebody has got to do it.

He didn't direct you. He never told you what to do. He would talk to you, mostly about something completely different, and you find yourself doing the right thing. It was really very spooky—what he did.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

If you can’t successfully do something, don’t think you can tell others how it should be done

Keep in mind that you’re not supposed to “figure out” what your purpose is, you get to make it up, create it, decide what you want it to be.

can really rescue you, and you have to do something. Not knowing what you want to