Quotes About Purpose

Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.

A passion in life, is a passion for life.

a goal without a plan is no more than a cloud,

Joseph Campbell would say find out who you really are and bring that out into the world.

All either of us needed was the right dream.

Perhaps my existence was pointless in any grand scheme of things, but it kept me entertained.

If we do not know what we are doing, then it follows no one else does either; and, if no one knows what we are going to do, well then, why is someone so determined to stop us from doing it?

He met with an incident." "You mean an accident." "Oh no, my Lord. There was nothing accidental about it.

Psychological flexibility is the ability to feel and think with openness, to attend voluntarily to your experience of the present moment, and to move your life in directions that are important to you, building habits that allow you to live life in accordance with your values and aspirations. It's about learning not to turn away from what is painful, instead turning toward your suffering in order to live a life full of meaning and purpose.

Pain and purpose are two sides of the same thing. A person struggling with depression is very likely a person yearning to feel fully. A socially anxious person is very likely a person yearning to connect with others. You hurt where you care, and you care where you hurt.

Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

Does the client experience life as merely imposed or rather as something he or she can author in a meaningful and ongoing way?

Will You help me hear the song You're singing over all this noise?

Someone coughed nearby, from some huddle of stones, and then spoke. 'So, who are we fighting for again?' Fiddler could not place the voice. Nor the one that replied, 'Everyone.' A long pause, and then, 'No wonder we're losing.

The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring -- all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims... for what?

It's the ignorant who find a cause and cling to it, for within that is the illusion of significance.

Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that makes you want to empty it.

When I was born, the man in the sky pointed to me and said, 'That's the guy.'

I was a little bit lost in my head after winning a Grand Slam. You're like: 'So what's the next goal? What do you want now? Where do you want to be? It's not a problem if you lose.'

If I wanted to take a more activist or journalistic slant in work, I should probably just go be an activist or a journalist. But I'm happy being a comedian.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

I just feel like there's a lot of things more important than just basketball, and I love basketball. It's what I want to do for the longest time possible. It's what I eat, it's what I sleep about, it's what I breathe, it's in my lifestyle. I just really feel like there's more important things than just putting the ball in the hoop.

I love what I do. I'm passionate about what I do. I live for what I do. And every morning, I can't wait to stop sleeping and to jump up and get out of bed and start doing what I do.

I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'