Quotes About Purpose

In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

Joy springs from a life lived with eternity's values in view.

Your life, in the end, is the sum total of how you spent your time.

1. "What do you really want to get out of life?" 2. "What can you offer the world that no one else can?

Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.

Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

Its actually really important that you succeed at what youre succeeding at, but that isnt going to be the measure of your life.

I have to do what I'm supposed to do with my life. Don't think less of me.

at the end of the day, human beings are products of nature, and if humans have purposes, then at some level purposefulness must arise from nature and therefore be inherent in nature … Might purpose be a genuine property of nature right down to the cellular or even the subcellular level? (p. 121–2)

As Alfred North Whitehead once put it, "those who devote themselves to the purpose of proving that there is no purpose constitute an interesting subject for study.

Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Stand, soldier of the cross, Thy high allegiance claim, And vow to hold the world but loss For Thy Redeemer's Name.

Life without work is unworthy of being lived.

The poet of Whit-manesque ambitions must find a way to present something that has as its sole purpose taking things away.

We exhibit at present the novel & astonishing Spectacle of a whole People deliberating calmly on what form of government will be most conductive to their happiness; and deciding with an unexpected degree of unanimity in favor of a system which they conceive calculated to answer the purpose.

This then is the scribe's direct purpose: the making of useful things legibly beautiful.

Spectemur Agenda

Work is not just about economic reward. It is also about purpose and self-respect.

When someone is alcoholic, is abusing cocaine, or is dependent upon marijuana, we often become so preoccupied with the problems the drug use creates that we fail to consider what purpose the drug must be serving for the user.

Happiness is not something that happens to people but something that they make happen." His research shows that people are happiest in a state he has named "flow." In a state of flow, you are one with what you are doing. Children know flow well. They call it play. Play is one of the childhood roots of adult happiness. But there are others—four others, to be exact—in the schema I outline in this book.

ADD people love bottom lines," I answered, laughing. "It's always, 'Get to the point'; 'What's the next show?'; 'Where's the beef?' Ã¢â'¬Â "Yeah, you're right," he said. "I'm not big on scenery. I want to get there. Is that bad?

What matters the most is that you live your own story to the fullest and that you tell it well. Be off now. The world awaits you