Quotes About Purpose

As things are now going, the peace we will make, the peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace, in brief... without moral purpose or human interest.

It is the strategy which is appropriate to our cause and to our purpose--the strategy of truth--the strategy which opposes to the frauds and the deceits by which our enemies have confused and conquered other peoples, the simple and clarifying truths by which a nation such as our must guide itself.

Freedom is not in doing what you want to do, but in becoming what you want to be.

Amos surely left it behind for a reason, and more and more Mrs. Bowe felt she was following a path trod out for her by another. For the time being, she was willing to play the part allotted to her. But she would keep an eye on the boy in her way.

I had to decide on the kind of life I wanted to live and live it.

You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love. —ANNE LAMOTT

We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

And yet we spend so much time and effort and energy on those résumé entries—entries that lose all significance as soon as our heart stops beating.

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric, a third measure of success that goes beyond the two metrics of money and power, and consists of four pillars: well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving.

Too many of us leave our lives—and, in fact, our souls—behind when we go to work.

It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.

Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

live fuller, more complete lives, aligned with what matters: A life that isn't defined by our salaries and résumés.

More and more people, of all ages and from all walks of life, are coming to realize that there's more to life than climbing the ladder, that we are more than our résumés, and that we don't have to buy into the collective delusion that burnout is the necessary price we must pay for success.

To truly redefine success we need to redefine our relationship with death.

the purpose of death is the release of love.

To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric, a third measure of success that goes beyond the two metrics of money and power, and consists of four pillars: well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving. These four pillars make up the four sections of this book.

There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if—as the poet Rumi put it—everything is rigged in our favor.

Socrates said, "the unexamined life is not worth living.

No eres tu cuenta bancaria, ni tu ambición. Tampoco eres ese montón de arcilla fría con una gran panza que dejas atrás cuando mueres. Ni eres tu colección ambulante de desórdenes de personalidad. Tú eres espíritu, eres amor.   ANNE LAMOTT

It's not 'What do I want to do?', it's 'What kind of life do I want to have?' 

We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we're actually writing it all the time, every day.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.