Quotes About Purpose

I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English and/or creative writing degree you'll say: ... Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.

Stop asking yourself what you want, what you desire, what interests you. Ask yourself instead: What has been given to me? Ask: What do I have to give back? Then give it.

Who would I be if I didn't? Who would I be if I did?

Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith.

What this requires of us is that we don't get tangled up in the living, even when we in fact feel woefully tangled up. It demands that we focus not only on what's happening in our stories, but also what our stories are about.

We are here to build the house.

The words are purposes. The words are maps. ADRIENNE RICH, "Diving into the Wreck" Will you take me as I am? Will you? JONI MITCHELL, "California

Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You

The words are purposes. The words are maps. ADRIENNE RICH, "Diving into the Wreck

When I say you don't have to explain what you're going to do with your life, I'm not suggesting you lounge around whining about how difficult it is. I'm suggesting you apply yourself in directions for which we have no accurate measurement. I'm talking about work. And love.

Of this I am absolutely sure: Do not reach the era of child-rearing and real jobs with a guitar case full of crushing regret for all the things you wished you'd done in your youth. I know too many people who didn't do those things. They all end up mingy, addled, shrink-wrapped versions of the people they intended to be.

Or rather, it's a bunch of what happened that ends up being about nothing at all.

It's what most of us have to give a few times over the course of our lives: to love with a mindfully clear sense of purpose, even when it feels outrageous to do so. Even when you'd rather put on your steel-toed boots and scream. Give it. You won't regret it. It will come out in the reckoning.

We are here to build the house. It's our work, our job, the most important gig of all: to make a place that belongs to us, a structure composed of our own moral code. Not the code that only echoes imposed cultural values, but the one that tells us on a visceral level what to do. You know what's right for you and what's wrong for you.

When I was done writing it, I understood that things happened just as they were meant to. That I couldn't have written my book before I did. I simply wasn't capable of doing so, either as a writer or a person. To get to the point I had to get to to write my first book, I had to do everything I did in my twenties.

I believe there is something bigger than our individual selves that we can touch when we live our lives with integrity, compassion, and love.

Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life.

I want your lives to have purpose & passion. I wish to meet all of you so I can tell you how much I love all of you.

If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight." William James

Can't this creature just hang out at a hospital, eat up the souls or essences or whatever of people who die naturally?" For a long moment Kesselring simply looked at him. "It's evil," he said finally. "That's its whole purpose in being here. To do evil.

...if a man love the labor of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him...

When God created man, He gave him two ends — one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

Employment is essential to our purity, happiness, and well-being.

Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead.