Quotes About Purpose

And once you know what it takes to live a better story, you don't have a choice. Not living a better story would be like deciding to die, deciding to walk around numb until you die, and it's not natural to want to die.

You're right," he finally said. "You aren't living a good story." "That's what I was saying." "I see," he said. "What do I do about that?" "You're a writer. You know what to do." "No, I don't." Jordan looked at me with his furrowed brow again. "You put something on the page," he said. "Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

And once you know what it takes to live a better story, you don't have a choice. Not living a better story would be like deciding to die, deciding to walk around numb until you die, and it's not natural to want to die.

You get a feeling when you look back on life that all God really wants from us is to live inside a body He made, and enjoy the story, and to bond with Him through the experience.

We were meant to enjoy life, not be drowned by it.

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live. If you want to know what a person's story is about, just ask them what they want. If we don't want anything, we are living boring stories, and if we want a Roomba vaccum cleaner, we are living stupid stories. If it won't work in a story, it won't work in life.

To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

I guess what I am saying is, I believe God wants us to create beautiful stories, and whatever it is that isn't God wants us to create meaningless stories, teaching the people around us that life just isn't worth living.

I don't believe we are accidents in the world, and I don't believe we were supposed to be actors either. I think we were supposed to be ourselves and we were meant as a miracle.

Some people skip through life; some people are dragged through it.

I know what life is about, but what if I don't like it?

The goal for our branding should be that every potential customer knows exactly where we want to take them:

but the reality is people want to work for more than just money. They want to work to build and sustain a community they love. As we shared our personal dreams with each other, my work was no longer about me reaching my goals, it was about me contributing to a team in which we'd all tied our dreams together.

What's the most important thing you can do today? If you can answer that question, morning after morning, you are in an elite group of professionals.

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?

All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.

Life no longer felt meaningless. It felt stressful and terrifying, but it definitely didn't feel meaningless.

people can't live without a story, without a role to play.

I'm starting to wonder if the whole point of life is to be thankful and to live in such a way others are thankful for theirs as well.

I wonder if what might help couples build great families is to pick a place for their family to go and then hit the gas, to work toward their vision and build it out.

Suddenly my life wasn't boring or meaningless. There was something I had to do in order to keep a bad thing from happening.

God made me, He knows me, He understands me, and He wants community.

Meaning is not an idea to be agreed with. It is a feeling you get when you live as a hero on a mission. And it cannot be experienced without taking action and living into a story.