Quotes About Purpose

Quien tiene un porqué para vivir encontrará casi siempre el cómo».

Jordan B. Peterson

Face the demands of life voluntarily.

Jordan B. Peterson

An aim defines progress and makes such progress exciting. An aim reduces anxiety, because if you have no aim everything can mean anything or nothing, and neither of those two options makes for a tranquil spirit.

Jordan B. Peterson

What might serve as a more sophisticated alternative to happiness? Imagine it is living in accordance with the sense of responsibility, because that sets things right in the future.

Un objetivo reduce la ansiedad porque, si no tienes ninguno, todo puede significar cualquier cosa o nada en absoluto y ninguna de estas dos opciones permite a un espíritu estar tranquilo. Así

We must have something to set against the suffering that is intrinsic to Being.

we don't experience any positive emotion unless we have an aim, and we can see ourselves progressing toward that aim

I have learned that these old stories contain nothing superfluous. Anything accidental—anything that does not serve the plot—has long been forgotten in the telling. As the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov advised, "If there is a rifle hanging on the wall in act one, it must be fired in the next act. Otherwise it has no business being there.

Why remain vague when it makes life stagnant

No purpose? Then, no positive emotion, as most of what drives us forward with hope intact is the experience of approaching something we deeply need and want. And worse, when we are without purpose: chronic, overwhelming anxiety, as focused purpose constrains what is otherwise likely to be the intolerable chaos of unexploited possibility and too much choice.

Jordan B. Peterson

You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.

Of course, there must be vision, beyond discipline; beyond dogma. A tool still needs a purpose.

To have meaning in your life is better than to have what you want, because you may neither know what you want, nor what you truly need.

An idea has an aim. It wants something. It posits a value structure. An idea believes that what it is aiming for is better than what it has now.

THE QUESTION IS WHY WOULD YOU EVER DO ANYTHING?

An idea begins to take shape: "I am going to live my life properly. I am going to aim at the good. I am going to aim at the highest good I can possible manage.

Your resolution trumps your nihilism and despair.

Jordan B. Peterson

Perhaps you should also be positioning yourself for a lateral move—into another job, for example, noting as you may, "This occupation is deadening my soul, and that is truly not for me.

There is a high goal, a mountain peak, a star that shines in the darkness, beckoning above the horizon. Its mere existence gives you hope—and that is the meaning without which you cannot live.