Quotes About Purpose

Echoing the work of Erich Fromm, he defines love as 'the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.' Explaining further, he continues, 'Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both as an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.' Since the choice must be made to nurture growth, this definition counters the more widely accepted assumption that we love instinctually.

he defines love as "the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth." Explaining further, he continues: "Love is as love does. Love is an act of will—namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love." Since the choice must be made to nurture growth, this definition counters the more widely

M. Scott Peck's classic self-help book The Road Less Traveled, first published in 1978. Echoing the work of Erich Fromm, he defines love as "the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Branden contends: "To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goals—to the best of our ability, whatever that ability may be—and to behave in accordance with that which we see and know." To live consciously

To make the most out of life, all of us need to stop, think (and analyze), and use the talents God has given us.

seriously evaluating my gifts and talents—an important step when choosing a career.

I also believe that God has an overall plan for people's lives and the details get worked out along the way, even though we usually have no idea what's going on.

Proverbs 29:18 says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Society may not need you, strictly speaking, but some sort of use can usually be found.

the Revolution had reached that classic mature stage where it existed only for its own sake.

A young man needs to know where he stands in the world, not just as a matter of basic human dignity but as determinants in the ways and means of survival, and what you might hope to gain by application of honest effort—

La società può anche non avere bisogno di te, in senso stretto, ma di solito un modo di utilizzarti lo trova.

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

Do you ever wake up in the morning and ask yourself ''Do I want to be amazing today?

It's never too early to think about your legacy, she would say. Don't you want to leave some kind of mark that you were here?

You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, 'cause you might not get there. —Yogi Berra

Fiat voluntas tua

Madness has a purpose! It's a gift from the Gods, and like all their gifts it comes with a price

The only purpose a Council serves is to make you all feel important.

But what have either of them ever done except learn Latin? Have they ever planted a field of wheat? Set up a factory? Dug a canal? They were born, Sharpe, that's all that ever happened to them, they were born.

If the purpose of life was to be an unpredictable, murderous tyrant, then it would be easy to be godlike, but I suspected we had a different duty and that was to try to make the world better.

We're not puppets in God's hands. We are his instruments. We earn our fate.

Who invented my life?

So sleep now, without fear for your life, and if you should ever manage to get out of prison, keep in mind that the purpose of freedom is to create it for others.