Quotes About Purpose

Indeed, being relevant is not the problem. However, the obsessive, all-consuming desire to want to be accepted by the world because you are relevant is! The minute this becomes our modus operandi, we compromise ourselves right out of our purpose, which is to be salt and light in a darkened world.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.

Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. A man's identity is not best thought of as the way in which he is separated from his fellows but the way in which he is united with them.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

Once we know, on a deep level, that we must die, we choose, in various ways, purposely to give up our life in order to dispel the unbearable feelings of helplessness and dread.

You want leaders driven by mission – not by adrenaline. No one wants to work with people who need to be heroes more than they need to be catalysts.

Every existentialist in good standing must own a gun, and every week the existentialist rulebook says that gun ought to be inserted barrel first into the mouth. Then you make a choice. Is life worth the trouble it takes to live it?

to whom does this free will matter?

Whatever I do, or consider doing, is really God's doing.

from natural selection's point of view, status assistance is the main purpose of friendship.

Is there something? Is there anything? Is there any evidence of something? Any signs that there's more to life that the sum of its subatomic particles - some larger purpose, some deeper meaning, maybe even something that would qualify as "divine" in some sense of the word?

I]f it be any part of religion to believe that man was made by a good Being, it is more consistent with that faith to believe, that this Being gave all human faculties that they might be cultivated and unfolded, not rooted out and consumed, and that he takes delight in every nearer approach made by his creatures to the ideal conception embodied in them, every increase in any of their capabilities of comprehension, of action, or of enjoyment.

It may seem seem cynical to see all religion as basically self-serving, and indeed the idea has been put pithily by a famous cynic. H.L. Mencken said of religion, "Its single function is to give man access to the powers which seem to control his destiny, and its single purpose is to induce those powers to be friendly to him.

Still, suppose—just as a thought experiment—that your goal wasn't living as long as possible but rather attaining the

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

Siempre la misma vida: estarse reventando para nada. Decime, Rengo, ¿tiene sentido esta vida? Trabajamos para comer y comemos para trabajar. "Minga" de alegría, "minga" de fiestas, y todos los días lo mismo, Rengo. Esto "esgunfia" ya. —Cierto, Rubio, tenés razón... ¿Así que te animás? —Sí. —Entonces esta noche damos el golpe.

Life left us all where we were meant to be or where it was convenient to leave us and then forgot us, which is as it should be.

Used in a personal sense, the phrase 'achieve an end' seemed to her a small-minded snare. She preferred the word life , and, on rare occasions, happiness .

I don't have much time, I have to haul corpses. I don't have much time, I have to breath, eat, drink, sleep. I don't have much time, I have to keep the gears meshing. I don't have much time, I'm busy living. I don't have much time, I'm busy dying.

The lesson here is this: Do what God says to do, nothing more and nothing less. There is no game here. There is one move, and it belongs to God. Your job is to follow it.

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

A spiritual perspective at midlife helps us to focus on what's really important in terms of feeling more connected to the world in a meaningful purposeful way.

I truly believe finding one's purpose is the true elixir of youth.