Quotes About Purpose

A prolonged meditation on unseen realities is sufficiently difficult, and seems scarcely the occupation for which common human nature was intended.

I don't really want to rap about money.

I am getting all this fame, but I don't absolutely know what I should rap about.

I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.

I never wanted to be no rapper.

Chance The Rapper is a person who really knows what he wants.

I don't feel like I should just be a rapper. That's boring to me.

I never really was like, 'Let's me and this rapper link so the song can go crazy and everybody can listen to it.' I never made music for that purpose.

It's a rare opportunity when you can do something for the greater good.

Everyone wants to be paid well - I know that I certainly do. But there are lots of other satisfactions that we get from our work. To feel needed. To feel accomplishment. To believe that our work matters. Being a lawyer gives you a rare chance to experience that kind of success.

I'm acting! And doing it for income! But it's for something that I love, and that's super rare.

There are so few times in life where you are passionate about anything. And I think that if you can find that, you should just hold on to it and protect it at all costs and just follow it, because it's so rare.

If you talk to most ambitious people, people who are high achievers, they're rarely at peace with what they're doing because they need an engine to keep moving.

It's true that if you love what you do, it rarely feels like work.

When we are caught up in the nature of our work and are asked to take on another job or position, rarely do we step back and ask ourselves, 'What do I really want to do? What is it at this point in my career and life that is important to me?'

I am no longer interested in the rat race and I want to be around in a meaningful way.

I never felt the need to be in the rat race.

There are two main organizations that rate charities. They look at their finances and decide whether they are giving enough to the causes they claim to focus on. Something like 80 or 90% of their money actually goes to a charitable purpose.

We have no rational evidence that there exists another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.

But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

Belize is so raw and so clear and so in-your-face. There's an opportunity to see something about human nature that you can't really see in a politer society, because the purpose of society is to mask ourselves from each other.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.