Quotes About Purpose

A human being unable to have a meaningful impact on the world ceases to exist.

Young people in Europe and North America in particular, but increasingly throughout the world, are being psychologically prepared for useless jobs, trained in how to pretend to work, and then by various means shepherded into jobs that almost nobody really believes serve any meaningful purpose.

Yet for some reason, we as a society have collectively decided it's better to have millions of human beings spending years of their lives pretending to type into spreadsheets or preparing mind maps for PR meetings than freeing them to knit sweaters, play with their dogs, start a garage band, experiment with new recipes, or sit in cafés arguing about politics, and gossiping about their friends' complex polyamorous love affairs.

Money is not created to earn money.

Could there be anything more demoralizing than having to wake up in the morning five out of seven days of one's adult life to perform a task that one secretly believed did not need to be performed

How can you have dignity in labor if you personally believe your job shouldn't really exist?

he had a way of standing and looking into the distance like he really believed in something

That's what anarchism is for me: a community of purpose without a community of definition.

We have become a civilization based on work—not even "productive work" but work as an end and meaning in itself.

Only one life 'Twill soon be past Only what's done For Christ will last.

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day. — BILL GRAHAM, EVANGELIST DO YOU REMEMBER DOILIES?

And there will be a time, not for long, a month is enough, or a week, when every single person will be able to completely fulfill what they were meant to be—everything their bodies and souls have offered them, not what other people have dumped on them.

life is too short to work on the uninspiring. Being

The Way is to straighten oneself and await the direction of destiny.

Furthermore, he admonishes us: "If you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself."111

Jung discerned that "the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."100

be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards. There is no "how" of life, one just does it.... It seems, however, to be terribly difficult for you not to be complicated and to do what is simple and closest to hand.... So climb down from the mountain of your humility and follow your nose. That is your way. 1

The purpose of life and the meaning of history is that God will deliver humanity from the misery of sin and restore the conditions that enable individuals and peoples to relate rightly with him. Morality and happiness are inseparably linked with salvation.

Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.

Nothing appalled Deming more than the idea of the interchangeable manager. "What is the motivation and purpose of men like this?" he would say with contempt. "Do they even know what they do anymore? What do they produce?" All they knew about was numbers, not product. All they thought about was maximum profit, not excellence of product.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.