Quotes About Purpose

We do the things we do because we think those things important, compared to all the other things that could be important. We regard what we value as worthy of sacrifice and pursuit. That worthiness motivates us to act, despite the fact that action is difficult and dangerous.

An aim provides a destination, a point of contrast against the present, and a framework, within which all things can be evaluated.

Jordan B. Peterson

Though thirty spokes may form the wheel, it is the hole within the hub which gives the wheel utility. It is not the clay the potter throws, which gives the pot its usefulness, but the space within the shape, from which the pot is made. Without a door, the room cannot be entered, and without its windows it is dark Such is the utility of non-existence.212 A

If you bend everything totally, blindly and willfully towards the attainment of a goal, and only that goal, you will never be able to discover if another goal would serve you, and the world, better. It is this that you sacrifice if you do not tell the truth.

He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

At least I am taking care of myself. At least I am of use to my family, and to the other people around me. At least I am moving, stumbling upward, under the load I have determined to carry.

What will you write with your pen of light?

Jordan B. Peterson

As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, "He whose life has a why can bear almost any how."61

He who contrives, defeats his purpose;

Inopportune questioning can confuse, without enlightening, as well as deflecting you from action.

German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, "He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

Do what is meaningful, not what is expedient.

However, I do not believe you should pursue happiness.

He whose life has a why can bear almost any how."61

Aim at something. Pick the best target you can currently conceptualize. Stumble toward it. Notice your errors and misconceptions along the way, face them, and correct them.

Dedica tus esfuerzos a hacer cosas con significado, no aquello que más te convenga.

All people serve their ambition. In that matter, there are no atheists. There are only people who know, and don't know, what god they serve.

How much leisure, enjoyment, and reward do you require, so that you feel like more than a beast of burden?

What could I do, that I would do, to make Life a little better?" You are not dictating to yourself what "better" must be.

Everyone needs a concrete, specific goal—an ambition, and a purpose—to limit chaos and make intelligible sense of his or her life.

To move forward with resolve, it is necessary to be organized—to be directed toward something singular and identifiable.

He who contrives, defeats his purpose; and he who is grasping, loses. The sage does not contrive to win, and therefore is not defeated; he is not grasping, so does not lose.138