Quotes About Purpose

Don't worry about what you're going to do with the rest of your life. Just find a profitable and interesting use for the next three to five years.

Como si la dificultad y el esfuerzo y la tortura confirieran de algún modo seriedad al trabajo que has elegido.

The quality of your life is the quality of your questions." Questions determine your focus.

lifestyle design,

lo que haces es infinitamente más importante que cómo lo haces.

y también para saber a dónde se está conectando.

He explained that he had spent more than 30 years with people he didn't like to buy things he didn't need. Life had become a succession of trophy wives—he was on lucky number three—expensive cars, and other empty bragging rights. Mark was one of the living dead. This is exactly where we don't want to end up.

De este modo, acabamos pasando (tal como lo expresó Thoreau) «la mejor parte de la vida ganando dinero para disfrutar de una libertad discutible en la parte menos valiosa de ella».

En el segundo en que empiezas a hacerlo para un público has perdido la partida,

D: To buy all the things you want to have. NR: To do all the things you want to do, and be all the things you want to be. If this includes some tools and gadgets, so be it, but they are either means to an end or bonuses, not the focus.

How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love.»

Live. Give. Forgive." They are by far the most important things in life.

Descubres tu "sueño" (u objetivo en la vida) a medida que recorres el camino,

unless something is well-defined and important, no one should do it.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where …" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. —LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland

No te daré la felicidad", y la colocaría fuera de un gran centro comercial o de un concesionario de coches. ¿Sabes cuál sería un proyecto divertido de verdad? Comprar miles de loros y enseñarles a decir: "No te dará la felicidad" y, luego, soltarlos por los centros comerciales y grandes superficies de todo el mundo. Ésa es mi misión en la vida. ¿Alguien más se apunta? Hagámoslo.»

In a world where we emphasize the creation of new products through rapid iteration and experimentation, we often forget to step back and make sure that the future we are racing to is one we truly want to create.

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl The Fourth Turning by William Strauss (Also, Generations by William Strauss, which was gifted to Tony by Bill Clinton) Mindset by Carol Dweck (for parenting) As a Man Thinketh by James Allen (see Shay Carl, page 441)

Quizá la acción no traiga siempre consigo la felicidad, pero no hay felicidad sin acción.» BENJAMIN DISRAELI, ex primer ministro británico

People can only be found in what they do.

Through love, Paul said, you should make yourselves slaves to one another. Thus freedom and slavery are not simply mutually exclusive terms; they stand in the closest possible relationship to one another and can only be adequately defined in terms of object and goal: what we are slave to and what we are free for.

visible, to keep me on track. When

these men signed up all those years ago for the full five-course meal, including the bitter dessert, and they got to this point without ever doing anything to push back from the table and use their lives to accomplish something useful.

To notice and resist the stirrings that would turn us aside from God's purpose in our day? What will happen in our spiritual lives if we do live with such spiritual awareness, understanding, and action? What will happen if we do not?