Quotes About Purpose

When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.

We spend our waking moments," he said at last, "trying to be successful, because we can't think of anything else to do.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them." ~ Thomas Kinkade

Every human activity is a tack for killing time,

For the rest of the earth's organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else.

Better to kill time than kill oneself

Why should there be something rather than nothing?

In its quest for a sense of meaning, humanity has given countless answers to questions that were never posed to it.

He ceased to be a person so that he could remain a successful organism.

Consciousness makes it seem as if (1) there is something to do; (2) there is somewhere to go; (3) there is something to be; (4) there is someone to know.

How much of what we do, from the ridiculous to the sublime, would not be done if we did not die? In tha blank face of mortality we always ask , "What's next?

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything. When you stay on purpose, focused in the present moment, the goal comes toward you with frictionless ease.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

We do not exist for ourselves...

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

Tis time to die, when 'tis a shame to live.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.

The things we do or want without reasons, and without requiring reasons - the things that define what is a reason for us and what is not-are the starting points of our skepticism. 

The Christian mythologists tell us that Christ died for the sins of the world, and that he came on Purpose to die. Would it not then have been the same if he had died of a fever or of the small pox, of old age, or of anything else?