Quotes About Purpose

It always comes back to us - why are we here? Well, we just happened to be here, we couldn't choose it. The chance of us being born - that sperm hitting that egg - is 400 trillion to 1. We're not special, we're just lucky; and this is a holiday. We didn't exist for 14 and a half billion years. Then we get 80 or 90 years if we're lucky, and then we'll never exist again. So we should make the most of it.

The real happiness of life is in doing 'karma'.

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

Greatness is not only about what you have or where you are in life but what you do with what you have wherever you find yourself.

We do what we do not to be known but for what we know to be known; the chase of fame is an absolute loss of aim.

on a single dominant idea: that the purpose of strategy is to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

We didn't come for the revolution. We came for breakfast.

Passions of the soul are potentially valuable. Unlike the Stoics, Descartes thinks they should not be suppressed, but put to good use.

Courageous people begin the journey knowing only the destination.

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

Knowing what you want to do and then what you have to do to make it happen is one big difference between adult creativity and child's play.

Living for the Product instead of living for the Producer.

It felt as if this was something we were meant to be doing, Pan and me together. It felt… right.

Passion makes others feel like they are working not for someone but, rather, with others—and working for something bigger than the individuals involved.

When you want to start living, what do you do? How do you start? Where do you go? Who do you need to blow?

When you want to start living, what do you do? How do you start? Where do you go?

The vision of the ideal life that we've been taught in the West, which is gaining ever more purchase in China and India and elsewhere, feeds the system we need to undo. Go to school in order to get a degree in order to get a job in order to earn money so you can try to buy happiness because your life sucks, then retire and die: this is not meaningful living.

For all that, we have to realize that many revived folk songs today, in their "second existence", are probably enjoying a more vigorous life than they did in their first, restricted time, even if they are bent to different purposes.'9 Folk music had been set free to soar like the kestrel. Two years after this was printed, Lloyd was playing 'Deep Throat' consultant to Fairport Convention's revamping of folk on Liege and Lief.

God schedules a birthday, not man.

If the end doesn't justify the means, what does? (Robert Moses)

At birth, each of us is graced with the simple job of remembering, understanding, and living the essence of who we are.