Quotes About Purpose

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.

Even in the days I feel the worst, I feel glad to be alive. To be a part of this journey called life. To be one of the lucky 7 billion. Why was I chosen to be here? I must have a meaning, right? There's a big picture already painted of my life, my legacy, my happiness. I just have to trust in it.

I simply cannot see where there is to get to.

Why is it that I find it so difficult to accept the present moment, whole as an apple, without cutting and hacking at it to find a purpose, or setting it up on a shelf with other apples to measure its worth or trying to pickle it in brine to preserve it, and crying to find it turns all brown and is no longer simply the lovely apple I was given in the morning?

All the gods know is destinations.

Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.

I feel like a very efficient tool or weapon, used and in demand from moment to moment...

I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living.

After all, I am alive only by accident.

All my life I'd told myself studying and reading and writing and working like mad was what I wanted to do, and it actually seemed to be true

What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.

I felt moved and tender and perfectly certain about what I was going to do.

So you will rot in the ground, and so you say, what the hell? Who cares? But you care, and somehow you don't want to live just one life.

I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks

I wasn't steering anything, not even myself

God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of parties with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear.

I wish I knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart…

Tomorrow what? Always patching masks, making excuses for having read a bare half of what I purposed. Yet a life is passing?

This loneliness will blur and diminish, no doubt, when tomorrow I plunge again into classes, into the necessity of studying for exams. But now, that false purpose is lifted and I am spinning in a temporary vacuum. At home I rested and played, here, where I work, the routine is momentarily suspended and I am lost.

How will I know when I've completed my mission?" The answer? "If you are still breathing, you are not done.

By unlinking your money motivation from anger, fear, and the need to prove yourself, you can install new links for earning your money through purpose, contribution, and joy.

Buckminster Fuller, um dos maiores inventores e filósofos da nossa época, disse: "O propósito da nossa vida é acrescentar valor à vida das pessoas desta geração e das gerações seguintes.

The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want.

PRINCÍPIO DE RIQUEZA O principal motivo que impede a maioria das pessoas de conseguir o que quer é não saber o que quer.