whats your purpose? Quotes About Purpose Load More Join Goodreads and meet your next favorite book! Sign in with Facebook “ He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche Tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions , why like “ The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. Ralph Waldo Emerson Tags: helping-others , make-a-difference , purpose, purpose-of- life like “ The best things in life make you sweaty. Edgar Allan Poe Tags: inspirational, life , love, meaning-of-life , philosophical, puberty , purpose like “ In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done. And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat, looked around, and spoke. What is the purpose of all this? he asked politely. Everything must have a purpose? asked God. Certainly, said man. Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this, said God. And He went away. Kurt Vonnegut, Cats Cradle Tags: creation, meaning-of-life , purpose like “ If you hang out with chickens, youre going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, youre going to fly. Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience Tags: accountability , friends , inspirational, life, motivational , purpose, responsibility, success like “ Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it Gautama Buddha Tags: mission, purpose, work like “ What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage Tags: action , community, daring , loneliness, purpose, youth like “ Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned. Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality Tags: atheism, belief , blind, blind-faith , blindness, christian- faith, christian- miracle, critical- thinking, critical- thought , death-of- reason , doubt, doubt- is-sin , eternity, existence, foundation- of-belief , human- nature , intoxication , meaning, meaning-of- life, metaphor , miracle, myth , nature , origin , philosophy , purpose, purpose-of- life, reason , reflection, religious-faith , resurrection, resurrection-of-jesus , sin, sinful , thinking , thoughts, wasted-life like “ I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, aw shit, hes up! Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience Tags: aspirations , devil , goodness , inspirational, life , live, morning, motivational, purpose like “ It doesnt matter what you did or where you were...it matters where you are and what youre doing. Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and NEVER let anyone shut you up!! Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free Tags: action , change , gratitude , inspiration , life, motivational , purpose, seize-the-day like “ If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for. Thomas Merton Tags: destiny, life, purpose like “ Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- Is this all? Betty Friedan , The Feminine Mystique Tags: existentialism , feminism , housekeeping, inspirational, marriage, parenting , purpose like “ A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. Jorge Luis Borges , Twenty-Four Conversations with Borges: Interviews by Roberto Alifano 1981-1983 Tags: art, purpose, raw- materia, writing like “ I think its much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I dont know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why were here. I dont have to know an answer. I dont feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. Richard P. Feynman Tags: atheism, meaning, mystery , philosophy, purpose, uncertainty like “ There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake. Shannon L. 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