Quotes About Purpose

The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.

She stopped feeling like she was nothing more than a consumer, nothing more than the sum of her daily obligations and duties. She was making something

You can believe that you are neither a slave to inspiration nor its master, but something far more interesting—its partner—and that the two of you are working together toward something intriguing and worthwhile.

She stopped feeling like she was nothing more than a consumer, nothing more than the sum of her daily obligations and duties.

Why had their lives turned out this way, and not another way?

Not everyone is meant to charge through the world, carrying a spear.

I do what I do because I like doing it.

We are an increasingly depressed and anxious people—and not for nothing. Arguably, all these modern conveniences have been adopted to save us time. But time for what? Having created a system that tends to our every need without causing us undue exertion or labor, we can now fill these hours with . . . ?

Do whatever brings you to life, then.

Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yourself. And only through knowing yourself will you be able to ask the key question of your life: What is is that I am destined to accomplish, and how can I make it happen?

But if your calling is to make things, then you still have to make things in order to live out your highest creative potential—and also in order to remain sane.

You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures

repeatedly give up their own health or their own time or their own best interests on behalf of what they perceive as the greater good—perhaps in order to consistently reinforce an imperative sense of specialness, of chosenness, of connection.

But I was always coming here. I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.

He didn't so much teach them how to write poetry, they said, but why: because of delight. Because of stubborn gladness

Your own reasons to create are reason enough.

Take seriously. Make punctual. Be cool and easy. Remember—everything you do, you do for God. And everything God does, He do for you.

Why am I here? What have I been called to do? How am I getting in my own way? How can I best live out my destiny?

But a lot of people don't know exactly what their passion is or they might have multiple passions or they may be going through mid-life change of passion. All of which can leave them feeling confused and blocked and insecure.

Most individuals have never had enough time, and they've never had enough resources, and they've never had enough support or patronage or reward . . . and yet still they persist in creating. They persist because they care. They persist because they are called to be makers, by any means necessary.

Mark Manson, who said that the secret to finding your purpose in life is to answer this question in total honesty: "What's your favorite flavor of shit sandwich?

el fracaso tiene una función. Te pregunta si de verdad quieres seguir haciendo cosas».

It's only that I've waited so long to grow up, but now there's nothing worth growing up for.

Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught.