Quotes About Purpose

The life does not have meaning when we do not have goals.

Have you heard that terrifying expression "to kill time"? It's time that kills us, but we pretend it's the other way around!

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

No doubt, God took a risk with creation by granting it consciousness and free decision.

I'm going to become whatever I was going to become.

I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why.

For the first time in my life, I couldn't think of anything I particularly wanted to study or to do. I still had the old idea of being a writer, but that was being, not doing. It didn't say what you were supposed to do.

Yes: understanding the point of sex felt just like understanding the point of Shakespeare. And weren't the two related?

Nobody ever said we were put on this earth for our own entertainment

This Life is More than Just a read through.

Men and women who venture to someone else's war through choice do so in a variety of guises. UN general, BBC correspondent, aid worker, mercenary: in the final analysis they all want the same thing, a hit off the action, a walk on the dark side. It's just a question of how slick a cover you give yourself, and how far you want to go. If you find a cause later then hold on to it, but never blind yourself with your own disguise. I

As surely as God sent us to earth, He has given us a return ticket.

To say to young people, "There are no such things, really, as beauty and goodness," is to do far worse than to fail to direct them out of the cave and into the sun. It is to cut out the hearts of those who might still be minded to make that pilgrimage. It is worse than to fail to direct the ship of the soul by the constant star of the North. It is to tear the tiller out of the ship entirely and leave it at the mercy of the winds, and to call the aimlessness "freedom.

Those who do not preach life but live it do not smile to the lily near the bank; they look for stones and hang on.

Somethingism is better than nihilism.

My Great-grandfather was a Congregational Minister and my Mother was a Bible scholar, and I was brought up on the Bible, that the story of the Bible was conflict between the kings who had power, and the prophets who preached righteousness. And I was taught to believe in the prophets, got me into a lot of trouble. And my Dad said to me when I was young, "Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone, Dare to have a purpose firm, Dare to let it (be) known."

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

Human consciousness created objective existence and meaning, and man found his indispensable place in the great process of being.

I once had a conversation with the director of a monastery. "Everyone who comes to us," he said, "does so for the wrong reasons." The same is generally true of people who become psychotherapists. It is sometimes possible to persuade people to be come psychotherapists who have not chosen the profession for their own personal reasons; but, for the most part, we have to put up with what we get; namely, ourselves.