Quotes About Purpose

In my previous book, Grindhopping, I told young entrepreneurs to ask three questions: What do I love so much I'd do it for free? How can I get someone to pay me to do that? If there's no obvious job title in an organization doing what I love (and often there isn't), what's a low-cost way I could start a business doing that, and get the cash register ringing quickly?

You can have a great system for organizing e-mail, or scheduling daily conference calls on various projects, but I'm guessing at your retirement dinner, people won't talk about your pristine in-box or packed schedule. They'll want to talk about what you've done. If you're not getting anything that matters done—like, say, lowering Vietnam's infant mortality rate—then you're not really working.

Any "work" that is not advancing you toward the professional life you want should not count as work. It is wasted time.

we become full people when we do things to change the world. The "problem that has no name," as Friedan called it, was that housework has never been particularly fulfilling to most people beyond the folks who decide to start their own cleaning businesses. You can dress it up all you want with fancy gadgets, but vacuuming a rug is still just vacuuming a rug … unless you imbue it with some larger purpose.

Rape is not a mistake! He did it on purpose, over and over again because he wanted to, because he off on it-

Everything had its purpose. If you waited long enough, a useless thing would become useful again.

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.

If God wanted us in the ocean, he wouldn't have made the land.

I definitely think there are times -- setbacks -- where it's dark while you're going through it, but eventually you figure out why you had to survive that dark time.

friendship with God is the entire goal of the Christian life.

Your world is the world of coincidence, of meaninglessness. You choose the world that would have us as specks of dust, as mice in a cage. Is that the kind of world you want to live in,

It's not what the universe gives us that matters. It's what we give the universe.

Did everyone think about death practically every day, or was it just me? Did everyone wonder why we existed, and if life was nothing but a fluke?

Its not what the universe gives us that matters, but what we give the universe

Silly girl, it's not what the universe gives us that matters. It's what we give the universe.

You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you.

Here is the beginning of integrity. A human being who deeply looks into himself or herself and asks: Who am I? What is the meaning of life? Why am I here? Why is anything here? Why are other people here? Where is here? and so forth, begins to find within himself or herself their authentic beliefs.

By synthesizing contradictions, you begin to achieve a unity of being and purpose. Unity arises through the equilibration of all opposites into the point of transcendence. You then become a lightning bolt of power, transcending all contradictions. Your total power becomes greater than the sum of your parts. This is the Great Alchemical Marriage that is spoken of in the ancient texts: the annihilation of the two ingredients at the birth of a third.

Crowley recognizes that the magickian can share 'one general nature' with other beings, in other words, he is referring to the morphogenetic field that the magickian shares with others working members of a lodge, a spiritual community or simply through a shared harmony of purpose. For the morphogenetic field most definitely has its own Will, directing those in the field to follow its inexorable tug.

Second, you must set your intention. An "intention" is the exact purpose that this Electric Blue Shield of Protection will serve for you.

By synthesizing contradictions you begin to achieve a unity of being and purpose. Unity arises through the equilibration of all opposites into the point of transcendence.

If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.