Quotes About Purpose

I can't prove to you that there is a God, I just know. All this suffering has to have a reason.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

You are a soul out walking, carrying a lantern to light the world.

Everyone thinks everything's a waste of time when it's not the thing that leads to an answer.

I am supposed to be where I go.

I am supposed to be where I go." -Joseph

is where I was born," he said. "Only that. I am supposed to be where I go.

He's resigned himself to the belief that the best a person can do is to make one's life worth dying for.

He says the scarecrows—" —weren't made to scare the crows, they were made to scare the corn.

You use what moves you.

Destiny isn't a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice

Productivity, we are discovering, is a function of joy. Joy comes not from free M&Ms, but from making progress toward goals that matter to you.

Am I making progress toward things that are important to me?

if you were offered $400 million to never do the stuff of your work again, would you be bummed about it, despite your riches? If you would, then it's time to ask a follow-up question. If you did land a windfall, and could still do the stuff of your job, what parts of your job would you change? Given that you'd never have to work a day in your life, what would you do more of and what would you shove off your plate?

This is the 168 Hours principle for work: Ideally, there should be almost nothing during your work hours—whatever you choose those to be—that is not advancing you toward your goals for the career and life you want.

I define "work" as activities that are advancing you toward the career and life you want. If they aren't, then they are not work. This is true even if they appear on your work calendar or you've always done them

Work was all I did, and I realized that was upsetting." It was upsetting philosophically—there is more to life—but it also felt financially foolish. "I live in New York City. If all I was doing was working, I could do that from anywhere. I could do that from a shack in the middle of the desert," she says. "Why pay to live in one of the world's most expensive cities if I wasn't taking advantage of it?

Calling something "work" doesn't make it a more noble use of time than anything else. Work that doesn't advance you toward the life you want is still wasted time. You will never get those hours back, and we only get so many. Wrote Shakespeare in Richard II, "I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Yes, the night would take energy. But really, what was I saving my energy for? If you want to do something, most likely you will be happy to have done it. Probably you will enjoy vast chunks of the adventure itself too.

Look for wars to trim transition times. If you decide to do something, do it. You can lose thirty minutes or more puttering around the house, putting things away, getting distracted, and losing intensity before taking whatever action you decide to take.

Calling something "work" doesn't make it a more noble use of time than anything else. Work that doesn't advance you toward the life you want is still wasted time.

Create your "List of 100 Dreams." This was the exercise from Chapter 2 that the career coach Caroline Ceniza-Levine does with her clients. Come up with as many answers as possible to the question of "What do I want to do (or do more of) with my time?

Les dije que debían lograr que su vida fuera memorable, que hicieran algo memorable todos los días porque ésa era la única manera de impedir que el tiempo se les escapara de entre las manos.

Harsh as this sounds, if you're not in the right job—a job that is moving you toward where you want to be in life—then you're wasting almost all the time you're spending at work.