Quotes About Purpose

avoid dying a moment before we have to. Given that we expend so much effort staying alive, it might seem strange to think that anyone

specifically The Seven Storey Mountain and No Man Is An Island that led me to where I am today and helped me become the person I was meant to be.

Desire is a primary way that God leads people to discover who they are and what they are meant to do.

Vocation is different from work or a job or even a career. You could say that work is the labor required to do a task. A job is the situation in which you do it. A career is the long-term trajectory or pattern of many jobs. But vocation is deeper than each of those concepts.

To paraphrase Merton in his book The Sign of Jonas, all of my training pointed one way, and all of my ideals the other.

There I was, "striving to be something I would never want to be.

In such uncommon longings, hidden in plain sight in our lives, does God call us.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.

But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That's what counts.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. –Steve Jobs

As Edward Albee put it neatly in his play The Zoo Story (1958): What I am going to tell you has something to do with how sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly….

Nihil est melius quam vita diligentissima.(Nothing is better than a most diligent life.)

We cannot do whatever we please and remain lawyers or yogis-and yet we could not be either unless we pleased.

A slave can have life only by giving it away. "He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." (Jesus)

This is a contradiction to all finite play. Because the purpose of a finite game is to bring play to an end with the victory of one of the players, each finite game is played to end itself. The contradiction is precisely that all finite play is play against itself.

The death of an infinite player is dramatic. It does not mean that the game comes to an end with death; on the contrary, infinite players offer their death as a way of continuing the play. For that reason they do not play for their own life; they live for their own play. But since that play is always with others, it is evident that infinite players both live and die for the continuing life of others.

Myths, told for their own sake, are not stories that have meanings, but stories that give meanings.

infinite players offer their death as a way of continuing the play. For that reason they do not play for their own life; they live for their own play. But since that play is always with others, it is evident that infinite players both live and die for the continuing life of others.

THERE ARE at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

Indeed, the only purpose of the game is to prevent it from coming to an end, to keep everyone in play.

An infinite player does not begin working for the purpose of filling up a period of time with work, but for the purpose of filling work with time. Work is not an infinite player's way of passing time, but of engendering possibility. Work is not a way of arriving at a desired present and securing it against an unpredictable future, but of moving toward a future which itself has a future.

the only purpose of the game is to prevent it from coming to an end, to keep everyone in play.