Quotes About Purpose

But this clearly left me to seek ego fulfillment elsewhere.

all these considerations disappear because you have your mind on much bigger and better things.

My only measure of success is how much time you have to kill.

Someone with optionality—the right to pick and choose his story—is only reporting on what suits his purpose.

As club members know, the very purpose of a club is exclusion and size limitation.

people might prefer to do something other than maximize their economic interests.

I'm not exactly sure what I'd do, you know but something interesting - something that's all mine something that would make some kind of difference in the world.

I'm not exactly sure what I'd do, you know, but something interesting—something that's all mine. Something that would make some kind of difference in the world. It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.

You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

The way I see it," Miles went on, "it's no good hiding yourself away, like Pa and lots of other people. And it's no good just thinking of your own pleasure, either. People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.

People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.

In the narrative of my life, which is the look backward rather than forward into the unknown and unstoried future, I emerged from the pool as from a baptismal font—changed, reborn—as if I had been shown what would be my calling even then. This is how the past fits into the narrative of our lives, gives meaning and purpose. Even my mother's death is redeemed in the story of my calling, made meaningful rather than merely senseless. It is the story I tell myself to survive.

I'm going to be a star some day, she announced as though daring him to contradict her. I'm sure you... It's my life. It's the only thing in the whole world that I want. It's good to know what you want. I used to be a bookkeeper in a hotel, but... If I'm not, I'll commit suicide.

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.

Chances are, when you were young, you were told, in effect, Listen, kid, here is the news: life is not about you. Life is not about what you want. What you want is not important. Life is about doing what others expect of you. If you accepted this idea, later on you wondered what had happened to your fire. Where had your enthusiasm for living gone?

I cannot organize my behaviour optimally if my goal is merely to do my best. The assignment is too vague.

Perhaps the essence of our evolution as human beings is to keep answering, on deeper and deeper levels, the basic question: Who am I?

My happiness and self-realization are noble purposes.

Again, living purposefully entails living consciously.

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...

Life, for a human being, is a constant process of thought, of motion, of purpose, of achievement; it is not the state of merely not being dead.

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.