Quotes About Purpose

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. URSULA K. LE GUIN

If we are incapable of controlling our existence, life loses its meaning, too.

Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

Serious converts to the game usually have some powerful motivation—perhaps unknown to them—for investing in the game at a particular time in their lives.

La trama è roba per gente morta.

Religion serves no purpose except to funnel money and power away from those who need it and leaves in its wake nothing but broken promises and damaged families.

If you want to be happy, cultivate a passion, be part of something bigger than yourself (have a Cause other than that of yourself), avoid self-absorption and self-obsession, know thyself via knowing others and connecting with others. Above all, connect to more than yourself and your immediate nearest and dearest.

And when all the lights have gone out, such as is the case in the modern era, we must look at the brilliance which shines in far off places, and journey to it. We must bring the Grail back to The People. It is up to us to undertake a most perilous journey. Success isn't guaranteed. But we go forth regardless. Do you have the courage to join us?

the behavior we see as "diminished" in elderly parents, clients, and friends actually exists to do a very specific developmental job.

When we start to realize that we're not going to be here forever, we become aware that it's not clear what it meant to be here at all.

propel them backward, not forward, to reflect on what their lives have meant—to themselves, their loved ones, and the world at large.

So you're saying that having kids is what it's all about and once you've had them you start waiting to die?

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

Today is your day and mine, the only day we have, the day in which we play our part. What our part may signify in the great whole we may not understand, but we are here to play it, and now is the time. This we know, it is a part of action, not of whining. It is a part of love, not cynicism. It is for us to express love in terms of human helpfulness. This we know, for we have learned from sad experience that any other course of life leads toward decay and waste.

People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure.

Meaning springs from belonging.

Now think of a situation in which something becomes meaningful to you. What is there to grasp? What is there to keep under control? That is not the idea. You will find yourself using expressions in which you are perfectly passive or at least more passive. "Responsive" is really the word, but you are more passive than in a situation in which you are accomplishing a purpose. You will say, "This really did something to me.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

But where's it leading you?' he asked. 'To where I have to go,' I replied.

Life is simply the pursuit of something worth dying for.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.